I never thought I'd be one of those old hams who favours theatre over everything, but I'm getting that way. Telly and film seemed more fun when I was younger; turning left on planes and washing up in nice places. But there are things that you only learn in theatre.

I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that sort of scope and that magnitude of storytelling; that's not my thing though I meet plenty of people whose thing it definitely is.

If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's.

Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.