“I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.”

“A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.”

“I'm the git in the family.”

“Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.”

“Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.”

“A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.”

“Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.”

“I go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.”

“The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.”

“You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.”

“Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.”

“The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.”