I like the idea of experimenting with different kinds of formats, and I think you've got to keep on your toes and keep changing.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right?

When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery.

Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Geniuses’ steps take you higher than talent’s leaps.

I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?

Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men’s trousers, you needn’t assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.