I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.
We're all victims of our own hubris at times.
I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.
I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.
Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.
Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he's the real deal, supremely talented and smart. He's got a great sense of humor.
I'll tell you one thing. I've never heard a director saying that the dailies suck.
If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals.
London is a very energising place to be.
What hasn't surprised me is that audiences, as we found starting with box sets, want control, to decide how they watch it. Appointment viewing is slowly being put slightly behind.
If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.
I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.
The stigma that used to exist many years ago, that actors from film don't do television, seems to have disappeared. That camera doesn't know it's a TV camera... or even a streaming camera. It's just a camera.
There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.
I've never done a movie that's shot more than 40 days because I just don't do those kinds of films.
Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when they're pushed against that wall, and how they're manipulated. They are both morality tales, though in very different genres.
If you're not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.
I felt that I shouldn't be an actor who just makes movie after movie in a quest for prestige and money.
I'm used to people thinking I'm nuts. And you know what? I kind of love it.
I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.
People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.
I think people love it when anybody acts bad; it's not particular to me.
Over the years, I've spent a lot of time in Washington. It's a great theater town.
No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.
Life's all about perceptions.
If we don't reach out to make theatre affordable to the young generation, we will lose them all.
The only real experiences I've had with therapists were the ones who were working with me and my family when my mother was ill.
When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.
A British director directed 'American Beauty,' an important film about American life, and it didn't matter. What only mattered was everyone's sensibility.
Meeting the person you are going to be playing is very unique.