In truth, making films doesn`t feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.

Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that`s how it`s always felt to me.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I`m doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

I`ve been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn`t surface. Some of the films that I`ve done in the past really were surface.

The movies I`ve made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I`ve had to play has been me in that time in my life.

How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.

I think games are starting to branch out. It`s not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit.

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that`s dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level.

The older I get, the more I realize how important it is to have certain things that are really my own, parts of my life that I keep to myself.

There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave.

I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him.

I don`t think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.

I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.

There`s something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It`s something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.

I`ve calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I`m still having a good time.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that`s where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn`t make a lot of sense to me.

I pretty much stick to the movie-based games. I play James Bond games and Minority Report and Spider-Man. I go for the big title hit movie games.

I want to do films I can relate to emotionally.

I`m trying not to put myself into anything I`m not 100 percent confident about.

Well, obviously, as soon as I`d finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don`t want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.

I`m blown away by the graphical detail of today`s games. I can`t imagine that it`s going to get any better, but it`s just going to continually progress and soon we`ll be living in that world.

I can promote until I am blue in the face, but ultimately nobody knows what makes a hit.

Broadway is wonderful and exciting, and I love that as well, but this was the first time I`d been in the West End. It was a great honour.

The way I see it, if you`re going to make an action movie, you`ve got to make one with John Woo.

The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting. I`d love to do that. I`m a fan of videogames. I like them. And to get to be part of one of them would be a fun and exciting thing.

I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals.

It`s almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There`s a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.

People need something to fill their papers, and I`m happy to provide.

Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.

I`ve always been fond of Winona Ryder.

[on being accused of copying Jack Nicholson] If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I`m doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?