As an actor you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don't see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities.

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.

I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.

I don't think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.