I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.

The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

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.

I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it's a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.

I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.