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.

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they’ve spent years just hanging out with adults and they don’t even have a sense of what it’s like to grow up with kids their own age.

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

For a long time a lot of people thought I'm British, because I'd done so many roles with English accents. People probably still think it. Or they don't think anything.

When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.

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