Things need shaking up politically, culturally.

hen Baillie [Walsh, writer and director] wrote the movie for me I wasn't doing what I'm doing today, so when we actually came to make the movie it seemed silly to change it. But who knows? That's the way things go. What was interesting for me - and what was always interesting in the script - was that you've got someone who appears to have everything, or at least has the opportunity to have everything, and he's f**ked it up, or lost it.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.

A secret is a secret in my mind.

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.