When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.
There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.
I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
I hate wasting people's time.
I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
