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 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.

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

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

Hunger's a great spur.