I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.