I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.

Yeah I was aware of the book, but hadn't read it. So as soon as I'd finished the script, I got a copy of the book and read that. My wife had read it and she loves it, so that was a good sounding board. I like her writing style, she's such a page-turner. I enjoyed The Constant Princess as well. I think she's great. The books are very popular with women and I can see why.

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

The thing I love about working with first-time directors is that it's always quite shocking how little difference there is between them and directors who've been directing all their lives.

If a great comedy landed on my doorstep, I would find it hard to say no.

I think you need to be able to see a lot of negative in things in order to extract material, so there's probably something to that. A lot of the people I used to work with were very, very, very unfunny offstage, so that's a pretty common thing.

I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.