The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of a Rough Gang - we went around and terrorised all the pupils in school.

I think all experience is, in some way, shape or form, filtered down to help you, in your present moment. With Shakespeare, you're trying to act with a fairly archaic language, although in certain aspects, it's deeply modern.

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

I'm a huge admirer of Pope Francis and everything he stands for. I think he's an incredibly connected spiritual and authentic being.

There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.

I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind of understand that.