I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If I'd wanted to have autonomy - if that was what I was after - then I could have chosen another profession.

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

I've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better—we'd have interracial bisexuality!

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

I think too much. Being in my body is much more satisfying than being in my head.

America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid. I was brought up on American films.

I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.