In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn't care what the audience think of you. That's not why you are there. You mustn't care for a second whether the audience likes you or dislikes you. Your villain has to be way beyond that.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

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.

There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.

There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous.