One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.

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.

I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.

We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.

I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.

Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.

You need to be disciplined and you need to try to occupy a zone of acting that is always quite scary because you don't think you're doing anything.