I've never changed the way I live. I still walk the streets; I don't give a damn. And everyone's very nice to me. But this new idea of being famous for no reason at all? I can't actually get my head round it.

We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

I was working with a great actress - a superior artist in every way - and she really liked Celine Dion. I tried very hard, but I couldn't understand it. I just can't listen to Celine Dion! So I guess music is a deal breaker.

Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck.

I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.

I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.

I never wanted to come off as self-important.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

I just love the process of working with other actors.

I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

I was never interested in being an overly public person.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

Art is spiritual.

You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.