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.

When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

Like anything to do with trust, in any relationship it emerges and just the chemistry, vibe between two people an actor and a director. You just know whether this is someone I like to be with whose interaction with me I believe in.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.