A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.

I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.

The thing about film is it is a very precise form. You know if you have it and you know if you don't have it. There's not really a middle bit where you're like, "I think we kind of have that scene."

It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.