I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way on the details that are not at all at the centre of the work.

I've got a serious-looking head.

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 see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

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.