Nobody could disappear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring.

I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing of rags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches.

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

I'm more enthusiastic and excited about work than ever. I know now what I'm about.

All actors are on the run from some demon or other.

As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

It was a sad thing. I don't know how he learned that.

The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they’ve written, they write some more.

I’m like a cat. I swear I havenine lives

Remember what I've told you. Remember me.

Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

It's interesting most people don't really know what a producer does and really the producer is the very first person on-site and the very last one to leave.

Okay, who wants to see me take off Snivelly's pants?

I played with Barbies but I used to decapitate them. I used to take their heads off then dye their hair and do weird things.

Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.