I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

I've been very lucky.

As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.

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 still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

I hate wasting people's time.