Lazy thinking is not creative or productive.

I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.

I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

I'm partial to a nice cup of vodka. I normally just drink it really simple with a little bit of lemon.

Wouldn't it be nice if the internet blew up?

It was fantastic to be able to have my kids on set. Dash, my eldest son, who’s not quite five, was into knights and his godmother had given him a plastic Marks & Spencer knights’ outfit and [first assistant director] Tommy Gormley said that he could stand to protect me during the scene where Clive [Owen] is talking about the immensity of sitting on the throne. I’m actually looking through an archway at my son standing in his knights’ costume protecting me!

I was but three when he passed by, but I shall be grateful until the day I die.