It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.

I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.