Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.

Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.

Early days, I was a bit racked , particularly when I did Hitler, for CBS . That was hellish. That stayed with me for quite a long time.

Acting is a really insular thing.

A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.

Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.

I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!