I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

My objective is that I don't try to do the same thing. I try not to emulate something I've done before. And, I'm a real people watcher, so I like trying to play characters that are as diverse from each other as possible, simply because it's more fun for me, actually.

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

If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

It's always better just to do work that you're really proud of and work that you enjoy because really all you have are the choices you make and that's it and who knows after that. I think that's what I love in acting.

I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.