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 only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.

Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.

I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

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