English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent.

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.

I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing.

Choosing work is an interesting thing. It's a balance between what's available and what you've always got in the back of your mind - that awful, strange thing that seems to have to exist in this industry, of what will give you "exposure."

I think as an actor, or any artist, you move with your moods and you express what's going on for you, and you answer to that voice within that's calling for particular things.

Having a partner who has nothing to do with Hollywood helps keep things in perspective.

It's really interesting making films and actually seeing the life that they have in the subsequent years and seeing which ones stand up over time and which ones sort of fade away.