I really wanted to get out of England.

I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.

I keep mementos from everything I've done.

If you only take parts that are offered to you, you end up playing the same roles over and over again. I think it's important to keep auditioning. I think it's important to scare yourself; to take parts that are outside of your comfort zone.

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

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

I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'