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 lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to – until I was 13. Then I realised what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life.

You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.

I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard.

I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.

A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.

Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid.