I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.

You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.

I've always liked American actors particularly. Because that was my first impression. I was very enamoured of America when I was a kid because we were surrounded by American soldiers during the war, the accent was very strange to me, it was very exotic and very captivating.

Hitchcock was such a master of putting on screen things that made you uneasy. Somebody once asked him what frightened him most, and he said the police. He came from a poor background. I think he understood those fears.