I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.

When you have children your own hypocrisy becomes more apparent because you're telling them how to behave, and you're not behaving like that yourself. So it obliges one to really go in and try to look at why there is a huge gulf between how one knows one wants to behave and how one actually does behave.

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

But interestingly Star City's technology is all 1970s - still. In fact, it's alarming because you think, "You're not going to send someone up into space in something that old, are you?" But it works and it always has worked and it doesn't fail and it's incredibly reliable.