Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.

I'd lived in LA for two years and I said to my agent that I wouldn't do any more network TV, because my family and I had just made the decision to live in England. It would be a whole year in LA shooting network TV.

You have to go where the good writing is.