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

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.

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

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.'