I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.

I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in it. And very, very accurate. I think there was some element that thought she had pushed it too far. But not at all when you do the amount of homework she had done and spent the amount of time she did with adult autistics. She was right on the money. And I think Marc Evans is a terrific director. He's a sweet, open, honest man and a really good director of actors.

When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'