Alan Rickman

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

Don't listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, they'd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.