You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

I am the character you are not supposed to like.

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

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