If money comes along I will take it. I just want good scripts that try to make you think. I've been offered lots of money in the past but I just know that I would abuse it and get drunk.

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

I genuinely was just such a fan of the books. When I heard that this was on the cards, I've got to do this; I've got to get involved with this. I'm such a Philip Pullman fan and actually his philosophies, morals and the way he looks at the world. He does what he does brilliantly as a writer. He writes children's stories with major adult themes and major ideas about making the right choices.

I can't go to war with paparazzi.