However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to be true to whatever the situation dictates.

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

The great thing about getting older is that you learn not to care about being cool. I'm happy with who I am, I know what I like and I can't see myself changing… not for a little while, at least.

I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.

I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.

However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to be true to whatever the situation dictates.

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.