We only get one planet.

Obviously people don't want other people to tell them how to think or what to believe, or to tell them what's right politically and what's wrong.

It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.

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.

Fame is not the worst thing. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying.

Like everything, personal relationships and all that stuff is sort of put on ice while you go off to your location for five or six months. So, do I feel more settled in my life and in my work? Absolutely, yeah.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.