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

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

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.

What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's the way I like it.

I think I come from a theatrical tradition where, if you look at the great theatrical actors of the British theatre, they took enormous pride in being wildly different from one role to the next. That's the tradition I come from.

If you're playing Hitler, you don't play Hitler as an asshole. Hitler believed what he was doing was right. Any of those monsters and any serial killer believes in what they're doing. I play it subjectively.

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