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?

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

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

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

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