When I choose a role it`s either because I recognise the man, or that I`m very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don`t play him.
When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.
[about the holocaust] It`s like a big, hulking monster squatting in the middle of our history and it won`t go away.
