You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right?

When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery.

Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.

I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.

For who can we be, but ourselves.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

I'm not good at math. Numbers are a terrifying thing to me. My father is a whiz with money and the stock market, and he tries to explain it to me, and I find it terrifying.

In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.

It's wonderful to find cultures that are historically still intact, as opposed to a lot of Western cultures which seem to me to be slowly dying, stuck in celebrity illness or stupidity.

Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human.

The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.

Play until it's time to rest, then rest until it's time to play.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.