I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward… slightly umm… I was never the cool kid at school.

I always like seeing people transforming themselves, in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.

I think it would be self-indulgent to go, "Oh, I'm going to make this character different by giving him a quirk of some kind." I don't think that serves the story, particularly. But even very similar scenes with a different set of actors, a different set of circumstances, it starts to evolve as a different character.

I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.

And the very fact of how you speak somehow influences who you are. The way you move, the way you think, it seeps into your being, and it's quite hard to really break that down entirely.

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.