A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

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

I've never been good at accepting jobs six months down the line. I can't do it. If I'm thinking about this, I can't think about that. So I always seem to fly by the seat of my pants.

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

I don't want to be a luvvie actor. It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this.

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

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.