One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.

Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

I've never been "celeb-y" actor. You know, you don't catch me falling out of nightclubs at three o'clock in the morning. Well, very rarely! But I find it all a bit baffling, the whole celeb thing and I don't really get it.

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.