You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great takes. It's also about one's own taste in performance.

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights...

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya.

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.