If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.

It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.

It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show.

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.