I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I'm not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story.

I haven't purposefully set out to play heroes. I'm interested in playing the character who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. But he's really either just saving himself or acting in the service of something that's important to him.

I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.

For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.

No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

I didn't play much ball. I wasn't much of a ball fan.

I don't mind playing older characters. I find it interesting. There are parts I couldn't have got when I was 30 years old. So, it continues to interest me in the same way that it always did.