Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.

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 hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

The fact in acting, you can tap into your darkest moments in life to your lightest moments. And people will watch it, and appreciate it, and even engage with you because of that. That's the greatest job one Earth.

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.