A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.

The job is the same - to attempt to make it sound like you've never said it before and as if it's just occurred to you. And that's the same whether you're on camera or whether you're on stage in a room full of people.

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way.

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'

I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It's fabulous.