The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking for you.

I come from the theater and you normally have four or five weeks to prepare. For me, the fun of the job is to pull yourself into a subject that you know nothing about.

I want to know everything. I'm probably a bit of a pest for the producers because I ask a lot of questions.

I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research.

A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.

You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.

I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid, I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of basketball. I was a fencer for Great Britain, but I only did that because I watched Robin Hood, Star Wars, Highlander and The Three Musketeers, and I wanted to emulate Richard Harris and the great British actors that I grew up watching.