I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.

I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.

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.

Film is very much about capturing the essence of things - if you feel it, and you've got the right person shooting it, it'll come across. Theater's a different animal; it's physically different and requires a different discipline. In the theater, you're mining the same material, constantly honing the same thing, executing it and keeping it alive and fresh.

The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.

I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head.