You’re directing a movie, but you are at the head of a ship of people, a whole fleet of people. And being able to manage that - being able to handle yourself as a director being a leader - that’s massively important.

There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will, characters that are simmering rage and calculated. There's a trend not to play anything that is opposed to that.

It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching Daddy's Little Girls literally in tears.

I've been DJing mostly, and most DJs end up producing. That's just me.

Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.