The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?.

I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me.

I garden a lot in LA, so fashion consists of boots, work pants and T-shirts, unless I'm going out..

I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area..

I always liked the Raiders of the Lost Ark. I still want to be Indiana Jones..

Helmut Lang does a lot of very military-influenced things. You have to find the designer that suits your body the best, and he works for me..

The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs.

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.

I really fight for my privacy..

The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London.

For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a ….

I can't get a job, I can't get arrested..

I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States.