My wife and I have now founded Lavender Pictures. If one has one's own company, there are very few surprises, but there's still the actual thrill of trying to get these projects off the ground. We're meeting with some measure of success. Always, now and at any stage of my career, I'm open to ambush, but there have been the most extraordinary set of coincidences, which continues through my journey, and I find it thrilling. Often, out of left field and quite randomly, comes a project and I think, "My god, there you are!" It's quite beautiful, really.

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.

I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.

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 most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs - so I'm totally immune. I live in a bubble.