I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

I hate violence. When I hold a gun, I feel death in my hands, but it's fun to pretend in the movies.

The earliest memories I have from my childhood are of my mum getting ready to go on stage. I must have been about five and I would watch her vomiting backstage on opening night, and then the next minute she became Isabella, the Queen of Spain. At the time I remember thinking, 'What kind of schizophrenic job is this?' Now it all makes sense.

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

You shall love. Whether you like it or not.

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

When you're working with the best, it helps you to be good because then you are focusing on what you have to do.