When preparing for a role, a month is a luxury. Sometimes you've maybe got two weeks before you start on something. So you have to learn how to do it….

One of the things that I was interested in about Moriarty was - he's so manipulative that he doesn't need to commit violence himself or kill people -….

I like the adrenaline of live performance, whatever that is, appearing in front of an audience of any kind, whether it's one or a hundred or a thousa….

If you want to do your version, go off and write it. You bring your knowledge to it, and you can use that to shape it and color it, but it's someone ….

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in..

If you only take parts that are offered to you, you end up playing the same roles over and over again. I think it's important to keep auditioning. I ….

I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before..

In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people..

I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'.

You get ideas from other people all the time..

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role..

My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you hav….

Often in films there's more of allowing the actors to make the dialogue fit better in their own. Also, you get to a location and the geography is dif….