If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.

I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved.