I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

I don't throw a lot of parties. I find throwing parties a bit intimidating.

I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great.

It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way.

It's very easy to just shout: 'Off with their heads!' Maybe in doing that you might lose something very valuable. I would like to see the monarchy continue, but in a more democratic fashion.

[Washington is a] very gossipy little village of people all going to the same bars . . . all watching each other having affairs with each other

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