I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.

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.

People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.

I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.

There's a kind of unwritten rule: Don't say anything at all, and everything will be fine. It's a producer's medium. The directors aren't there to make any decisions. They're not going to change anything.

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

I like to be working and moving - the worst thing you can do to me is stick me in a room all day while you're lighting a shot. That just kills me.