I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before.

You can't live up to what people expect. Nobody can. But I guess that's my problem, not theirs.

I get pretty dark sometimes, pretty bleak. But that passes.

There are messages about civilisations and we are trying to be true to history as much as possible. We wanted all this to gel with some good theory about why these civilisations went down, why they weakened and crumbled. Because they did, they vanished.

Theatrical is fantastic. I don't think anything will ever replace the big dark room, the screen and the popcorn. You can kind of do it in your home if you have a nice screen, but it's not the same thing.

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.