I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.

I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.

The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry.

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

I had bags of energy as a kid.