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

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

Hunger's a great spur.

So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found their way back. That seems believable to me.

The darker the character, the more interesting.