I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

Things have changed so much now. Everything is downloaded onto computers. I'm not a computer-savvy guy, but with downloading the movie industry has changed.

I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.

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.

I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.

I watched a film with a very famous, great, great actor, I won't mention his name because everyone loves his memory, but I thought, "God he was acting a lot." Great actor, but nonstop acting. Wall to wall, fitted-carpet acting.