You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.

You look at any war zone and you talk to any soldiers and they have to blank out - in order for that to work for them, in order for them to survive they have to blank out something in themselves in order to do it.

I couldn't think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I'd go as the Invisible Man and not turn up.

It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.

Liverpool will always be my home.

Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.