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.

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.

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy, because it sells movies on 'behind the scenes' footage. It's seeing the secrets of how the movies are made, and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plots a secret.

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

I never had any boyhood ambitions.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.