In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

To do a blockbuster that isn't stressful is a delight.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.