Very often on films, even without a producer credit, I'll be involved, very early on. I want to be there as the thing is taking shape.

When I started in the theater, the joy for me was playing different parts, and I get set alight by different people and different worlds. The biggest joy for me is jumping around and going from that to this to that, never feeling that I'm any one thing - because I'm not, and we as people aren't.

I always want my options to be open.

I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's sort of sitting in drawing rooms.

I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.

I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.

I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, "Oh, we should film this." As opposed to have to belt it out of ourselves in a theater auditorium.