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

I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.

I never go anywhere without my iPod.

A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood. These are big subjects, big subjects. You can't balk at work like that. As an actor, that's as good as it gets.

I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.