I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

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.

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

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?

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

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.