People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

If I'm playing a murderer, I don't go out and start murdering people.

Nowadays, especially in big commercial films it's much easier for the audience, and they tend to get spoonfed. It's much more interesting to me, people leave the theater and they start asking themselves questions and find their own moral compass about what these characters have been doing.

Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.

I could never swim in the ocean after seeing Jaws.

I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.

I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!