It's great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I'm enjoying.

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

When are you ever settled enough to have kids?

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.

I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.

If you can't fail, you can never get better.