I think if you were known for playing something other than being a nice guy then people might be a little less likely to take liberties with you. If you are Ray Winstone, and people have seen you kick a few people to death, then they are a little less likely to approach you or whatever.

Not all Peter Greenaway's stuff is sequential, narrative story. Some of it is like an art installation and I'm not particularly interested in being in an art installation to be honest. I'm interested in the story.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.