I'll be your friend so long as you're not crap

Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.

We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life.

But it's interesting being directed by someone who is a very good actor. There's nothing like it. It might sound like a territorial thing about what I do, but I don't think you can understand what it is until you've done it. I know that to be a fact.

I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing.

Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

Firth - all dodgy 'tache and frantic eyebrows - has got the sexual allure of a man who runs a swingers' club in Surbiton.