I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

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

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.

I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

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