I think the war movie genre is a very important genre in film. Film gives you a visceral experience of something that you would never otherwise experience. To give the audience a real feeling of what maybe a certain kind of warfare would be like I thought was great.

When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.

Acting is acting, but acting is different in almost always every project, and very, very different in this context.

I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.

There's nothing sexy about doing a nude scene. It's rather uncomfortable. I like dressing up rather than dressing down.

With that incredible voice that he [Alan Rickman] could play like a sort of wonderful instrument, like a cello or something. He played his voice, and he could be the most subtle of actors. And he could also be quite a big actor. He could do the grandiose performances as well.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.