And now? You turned 60 recently...
Yeah, December. Things change - I like my home and my wife and my kids so I think whether I want to be in a motel or putzing around in my garden with my wife. I'm at the point where I don't particularly want to leave my home to act but when I'm on set I love it.

Do you think about giving up?
No. I love acting, I really love it. I don't know that I want to go off and make a TV series for 22 episodes and nine months because my wife would go and make a movie and we'd never see one another. If I had a magic wand I think maybe we'd go off and make one movie in a year and then maybe we'd do some theatre together; that would be ideal.

I read that you're a founding member of the American Oceans Campaign.
Yeah, that's right, thanks for mentioning it. I'm probably no more or less ecological than anyone but 20 years ago I started the campaign. We're now the largest single international ocean activist and it's doing great, it's very effective.

We're stopping the destruction of habitats through bottom trawling. We're not interested in just raising awareness; we're interested in changing policy. We're working with fishermen to change the way things are done and it is getting the job done. I'm so proud to be part of it. But I wish I'd chosen global warming, maybe I could have got a Nobel Prize out of it...

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