It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.

I'm relaxed naked as long as there is no one else there. I speed up past mirrors.

I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done.

I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one, and now they seem sort of meaningful and important.

I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.

I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.

I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true." I like those kinds of backgrounds.