I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.

It must be hard interviewing actors.

I like to learn about things.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.

I hate the domestic life.