I'm not really attracted to action sequences, because my experience is that it's quite a slow process to shoot them, and often we're not involved as actors.

I was getting in trouble at school. I wasn't happy. The school was very much a school that created people for commerce and it wasn't an arty school.

Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.

I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.

If I want to do the kind of work that I like to act in, I need to open my mind to it.