I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.

Sam [Mendes] said he took advantage of the fact that Kate and I were so close for many years. He knew it was something he could harness in our performances, and we knew that too.

Playing Arnie was fun because everything I did was spontaneous.

When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.

To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice?

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.