When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long time. It's all good fun. You never know who's gonna survive and who doesn't.

One of the things that I was interested in about Moriarty was - he's so manipulative that he doesn't need to commit violence himself or kill people - he can get everyone to do what he needs to do. And sometimes they don't even know that they are being manipulated by him.

I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

You can't really do a lot of research for being a mass manipulating, murdering super-villain.

I really wanted to get out of England.