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.

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

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.'

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

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

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.