You do things bit by bit. That's the only way to play something really original, where the details stand out. You're not just showing us a cliched, generic character that you've seen before.

Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

There's one two-minute scene that I took out because I felt in the end Capone was a more sinister and frightening presence in the film if he never appeared.

It always gets worse as you get older. You get more nervous, there's more to lose. He's got to live up to being Paul Newman.

[Comparing the two actors,] Jarhead ... They're alike in some ways, both great listeners, but they react very differently. Jake is reacting to everything that passes him by, and is very readable in his reactions, whereas Peter has mastered watching as an art. He sits on it and holds it, holds it, holds it, and then it all explodes in a volcanic way. But they were both right on the edge.