Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have more control over the story. The audience doesn't care about the platform. They care about the content.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.