As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

I'm very good at forgetting people.

It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.

I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.

I was terrible at school.