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'm more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom.

Having gone through editing process, I can see that in actor's faces there's point where they're not managing their performance and that's, I think, the best place to be. You've done the homework, you've learned the lines, at that point you just sort of let it out.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.