Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

There's something that happens where you go, if you're lucky, goodness me, from film to another film to another film. And you can sort of feel that if you step off that treadmill, it might all go horribly wrong and you might never be employed again, you know. And I suddenly thought that that's not necessarily the case. And I also thought we make drama as actors about people in the world and that if you are on that treadmill, you start making films about other films.

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.

If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.

I was spending a lot of time in trailers, you know, on film sets surrounded by film people.

I was born in '71, so I remember bits of glam rock on 'Top of the Pops' toward the late '70s, but I had no idea what kind of world it was. I didn't like the music, either.