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 find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

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 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.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.