The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

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

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

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

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.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

I am a fairly go-with-the-flow guy. Don't get me wrong, I have convictions.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.

She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?

I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings, and I don’t like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed.

We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.