We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.

I'd love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You're treading on very thin ice.

[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he's not afraid to go to dark places.

There are other people who don't mind shouting from the pulpit and being judged for it, and they do a hell of a lot of good - real, on-the-ground, life-changing good. So I think it can sometimes be a balancing act.

Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.

I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own - they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.

I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.