Am increasingly intrigued by the actor after reading almost everything I could found about him, his interviews, film reviews, tabloid rumors about him, even therapeautical analysis on his personality based on scanty information scattered around in the media about his childhood.

He gives exquisite interviews (as long as he is willing to give one), one of those that make light of real topics without diminishing them.

“The important thing is it’s a game. And that’s what people misunderstand. It’s a game, a very elaborate one. But, as far as possible, each of us is trying to go back to the playpen to retrieve that state of naivety which allows us to to to go through solid objects. You know, to create the illusion for ourselves that we are changing. So it’s a game, and a game is a pleasurable thing. The work is pleasure, yet it’s always presented as a form of elaborate self-flagellation.”

“I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language. My mother [the actress Jill Balcon] loves the language. Yet for me, for whatever reason – maybe it was my small rebellion – it was inarticulacy that moved me.”

“The truth is – and this was part of the problem with Hamlet as well – you explore these things, you try to unleash these things which you hope will inform the life, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to be in control of them once you’ve opened the box.”

My favorite is the one done by The Independent seven years ago, in which he said he could spend upwards of a week “just staring out of the window, watching the wind whip across the Wicklow hills. Some people will consider this shamefully neglectful when one considers that there are always more pressing matters at hand, but for me, I have to tell you, it is time very well spent.”

Based on what I read, including all those demonizing stories that cast him in a caddish light [famously, or infamously, dumped Adjani by fax when she was pregnant], I tend to think, the person he could end up with, shall be the one who can be a good companion to all aspects of his personality, just like how he described Rebecca Miller (Arthur Miller’s daughter) in her Oscar acceptance speech.