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

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

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.

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.

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.