I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.

I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.

I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.

It's a difficult position. Do you endanger your child to fight for the right thing, or do you keep your mouth shut and let your child grow up in a world where their natural rights are stripped away from them?

The reason I do small, independent movies is because I want to keep my soul intact and maintain some kind of integrity within this industry.

I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.