“When you're a young boy, you're looking at older men for role modellin...” — Ben Mendelsohn Quote

When you're a young boy, you're looking at older men for role modelling. Before I loved De Niro, I loved Clint Eastwood; I loved John Wayne. And James Bond.

There are always dimensions, and the way they get expressed is through the writing and the actors and the director you get to work with on that day. But there are always dimensions, outside of really basic stuff for very young people where it needs to be very clear.

'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.

I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.

The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.

Everyone, whether you are married or have a boyfriend or girlfriend, there's always someone who has a hold of your heart. You learn to let it go, but there's always a place in your heart. For me, it was someone I went to college with and we had an amazing bond, but I left.

The next Bond ought to be a woman or, at least, a black actor.

That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond.

My aunty used to dress windows on Bond Street in the 60s and my family were furriers by trade, talking to me about dress making, quality, the 60s and shops in general throughout most of my childhood.

Everyone talks about how they knew the Bond films were going to be a success, but it simply isn't true.