I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.