I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

I hate wasting people's time.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

I don't torture myself. And I do the work because of the pleasure involved. I'm satisfying a compulsion I find nigh-on irresistible. It's not necessarily because of the work itself. I just feel the need for a period of regeneration afterwards. Like leaving a field fallow when you've grazed too much on it. I feel depleted.

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's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.