My personal feeling is that audiences are crying out for stories they can invest in and feel. I see a lot of big movies that leave me feeling rather numb.

A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.

I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

I love character roles. I'm happier in them. I look for roles that have some kind of complexity.

My personal feeling is that audiences are crying out for stories they can invest in and feel. I see a lot of big movies that leave me feeling rather numb.

If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's really hard to do the accent. I tend to try and stay in it all day, which is the only way I can manage it.