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 think movie making can sometimes make you lazy in your approach. Occasionally you'll be shooting a scene and it's not even your coverage but you'll catch yourself slipping away and you'll see your mind going somewhere else. But you just can't afford to do that on stage.

Wherever the good work is I'll go.

I have a problem with heights in general - and climbing!

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

I'm a hard-mouthed north-eastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.