I hope I'm able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every take, rather than more. So I'm reducing, rather than adding. Which hopefully is a good exercise. That's what I'd like to do.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

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

The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.

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 always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.