You can make the best show in the world, but if people don't actually turn it on and see it, they'll never know it's the best show.

As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.

Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

Theres such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.