For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

It's almost obscene when you see people who haven't matured, who haven't changed, who don't have the weight of years on them. So that's interesting to me - to think about playing him into the future, anew.

Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.

I drive an electric car.

Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it's all faking.

Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.