I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.

The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.

As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.

Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.