There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard to identify which things are the things that help you be good, and which are the things that hinder you.

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

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.

It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.

There's something different about an indie film than a TV show that has a huge infrastructure that's in place already for you - at least financially and in terms of distribution. Whereas an indie film is just a total dare.