If there`s anything about someone`s life that`s important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It`s a huge responsibility.
I always say I`ve given 24 insufficient performances and I`m looking forward to the time in my life when I`ll do something that I think is good. There`s always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn`t uncover enough. But if you do something th...
[on turning down the role of Morpheus in The Matrix (1999)] Well, "The Matrix" - I just didn`t get it. I couldn`t get past page 42. That world was just not interesting to me.
In wars, no one wins, everyone loses. There are no heroes, there`s only dead people. Movies can really change things and ... it becomes an educational process and I think that`s the healthiest way of attacking anything. That`s what I`m looking for.
[On an upcoming remake of the Robin Hood story] If you go back into the mythology, you get Robin the Beheader, who would chop off your head and your hands, take your money and keep it. So we`ll have a look at that.
If there`s anything about someone`s life that`s important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It`s a huge responsibility.
