You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

Usually when you're working on fight scenes, you don't really feel what's going on physically. It's more when you go back home and you're like, "My god!," and you wear the wounds or bruises with a certain amount of pride.

I had no ambition to become an actor at all.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.