The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

I hate wasting people's time.