Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

Anybody can leap off a building.

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.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

I think finding the right person and being with the right person is probably the answer to most things.

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.