Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.

I love storytelling. If you strip all the bits away, what you'll find at the center is a storyteller. As I warm to my career and love it more, I have a sense that storytelling is healing, in many ways. You can reach an audience and heal, and by heal, I mean entertain and provoke. It's a wonderful life.

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

You want to know what I want? I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.