The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.Collection: Travel
Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.Collection: Family
Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.Collection: Parenting
I had to ride a horse once. In 'King Arthur.' I said I could ride, but I had to call for lessons on the day the deal was signed. I started out on this little chunky thing and slowly moved up. It was months of work.
I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.
I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.
You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.
There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you've got something to play, there's layers to it.
I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.
I've got actor friends who didn't get breaks, who struggle and worry about things that I'm fortunate not to have to worry about.
A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.
After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.
After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.
It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.
I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, 'Oh, we should film this,' as opposed to have to belt it out of ourselves in a theater auditorium.