One of the things that makes this so topical right now is that I think there are an awful lot of American men - and women, but I'm a man, so that's what I can talk about - who feel the American dream has let them down.

My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

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.

Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

To be brutally honest, I am a little bit of a Clint Eastwood nerd. Clint Eastwood who was the man who drew me into movies. When everybody else was watching Star Wars, I was watching Fistful of Dollars.

It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera.