I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.

Comedy is not something that had necessarily jumped out as something I'd immediately go for.

There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had.

I really do consider myself quite fledgling in my acting career. I've only been doing it for 10 years and that's a short amount of time, really.

I want to go to the extremes and transformation is something I'm fascinated by. At the same time, you can transform but you can only really put what you've got inside you into somebody, so there's always going to be a degree of you inhabiting any role.

A lot of the time when you're doing your own work, it's all in your own head, which can be frustrating if you're prepping for something, especially an audition where it's all in your brain and you go in and no one else has seen it and you don't really know how it fits.

I want to be 82 and doing movies with Paolo Sorrentino where people are like, "This is gold."