I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

People are going so far as to kill themselves over the things that happen online.

Usually, if you're buried alive, that's gonna be the last time that happens, isn't it?

I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.

Women are less aesthetic than men.

The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness. I'm not mad, but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn't it?

My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.