When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy..

It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't tu….

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'.

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks..

What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?.

The fact in acting, you can tap into your darkest moments in life to your lightest moments. And people will watch it, and appreciate it, and even eng….

I did 'Deathly Hallows' so my kids could get on the 'Harry Potter' set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn't have been nicer to ….

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of..

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy..

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them..

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the sm….

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors..

The acting I got into by doing what we call pantomime, when I was sixteen. And, there were loads of very pretty girls in the show. I realized; I foun….

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you..