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.

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

Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

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.'

You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

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.