You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true.

There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.

I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of other people.

Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.

I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it is over.