I've always been creative, I think.

I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.

You have to play the logic of a character.

It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.

It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly.

I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.

My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.

As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.

Friends always say you don't realise how robust your baby is until you drop it.

Darkness and light. Black and white. But which is death, and which is life?

Johnny Colt is a character, and most people in Lynyrd Skynyrd are characters, so he fits in great with us. He's got an attitude, man, and I love it, and that's what we need.

We can't learn without pain.

You know, businesses hate uncertainty more than anything else.

The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

I loved all the world's mythologies.

I always try to be different. I always want to surprise myself.

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

It's easy to get stagnate, if you play the same character. In New Moon, I felt like I was going a little bit deeper.