I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

Some managers hire people they're excited to work with. I prefer to hire people I'm excited to dominate.

Anything will lase if you hit it hard enough.

Do you think I can read [Alain] Robbe-Grillet in an underdeveloped country? He does not feel himself maimed.

I like to have people around and an environment with constant feedback on what I'm doing.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child?

A penny saved is better than a penny earned.

We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front.

Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

Thou shalt not kill anything less than a fifth.