You have to go where the good writing is.

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV or something.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

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