For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

You have to go where the good writing is.