I love working. I'm a workaholic and I'm really privileged for some of the jobs I get offered and so I just want to keep going.

Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else.

I've never had to explain Prometheus to people, ever. Most people get it.

I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.

Television, for me, is a medium that I'm probably always going to be attached to, one way or another.

I'll always be attached to telly in one way or another, whether it's a character or producer or director, I just love the medium.

It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?