I'm very glad I'm not a politician. I think it's one step away from the gates of hell, being a politician. I really do. It`s a nightmare.

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I’m probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

I think I'm probably an assassin and not a Templar, but no doubt we're probably run by people with Templar mentalities.

The work I prefer to do are the smaller budget pictures, television can be great but it ties you up for quite a long time.

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.