I'd grown up loving English films, I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.

I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

I don't separate Robert DeNiro's comedy from the serious stuff. The one thing I realize working with him in all of his work, is that he doesn't do anything unless something happens to him in scenes - unless something happens to make him react. He never came in with a set idea of how he was going to do it, he never came in with guns blazing. He would just show up and wait to see what happened.

The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.