1. “People smile at me as if they know me. I just smile back. They probably might know me.”
2. “Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.”
3. “We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.”
4. “Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.”
5. “You can’t be angsty all day or day else it becomes a sort of pale angst.”
6. “I love a really good storyline.”
7. “It’s fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you star analysing it.”
8. “To do a blockbuster that isn’t stressful is a delight.”
9. “I haven’t got a writer’s discipline.”
10. “I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we’re also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.”
11. “If you’re playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce in some way.”
12. “The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of… in different cultures or whatever.”
13. “I see myself as a small ‘I’ liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.”
14. “We’ve all got a black book of missed opportunities.”
15. “In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It’s sort of unsatisfying.”
