I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie.

I don't tend to say it's time for one of this or that genre. Things flow to you in a strange way, and why you bump into a certain kind of thing in one moment is...it's hard to explain.

It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

I'm an actor, and, beyond that, the thing I do most compulsively is writing. So I come at it very much from this sense of character. I get interested in people. And I feel confident in my capacity to absorb and manifest the characteristics of people. I have a real auditory hang-up for dialogue; re-creating the way people talk really is an addiction in my brain.