Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

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

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.

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.

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

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.