I find there is something very intimate about being the voice in someone's ear when they're driving.
I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.
Any part that makes you world famous has got to be a blessing, hasn't it?
With a sequel, you always worry for its integrity.
Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.
Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.
I like dangerous directors who like dangerous actors and dangerous productions.
Kids will eat anything, won't they?
I was a huge J.M. Barrie fan as a kid, as most English children are.
You can't stay away from the theater too long.
I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.
When I did 'Amadeus,' I hadn't done a play for five years. And I was so happy doing it and felt so foolish that I hadn't done a play for such a long time that I wanted to go back and really kind of reach out for a classical career.
I'm good at my own company.
