I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.