I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.

It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is.

My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.

The more you think that you are watching a show about sex, the more you ultimately are watching a show about the challenges of just connecting with human beings and being intimate.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.