For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.

To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression.

As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character. Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past and amazing things that they've done, I came across a book about Howard Hughes and he was set up as basically, the most multi-dimensional character I could ever come across. Often, people have tried to define him in biographies, but no one seems to be able to categorize him.

This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.

I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder.

I've just got to maintain my passion for what I do.

Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and how it turned out.