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.

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.

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.