Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors.

It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.

I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.

If time is linear, every moment is new! Monotony is just an experience of Ignorance!

Give your all in the Here and Now, with all of your heart

What? A man who could admit to his feelings? They really do exist!

I wanted myself. I wouldn't let what was mine be destroyed.

Tis the final conflict! Let each stand in his place! The international working class shall be the human race!

Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood.

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

You don't belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you're here to serve.

The law demands that we do it all; the gospel declares that Jesus paid it all.