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

My understanding of zombie movies is people rising from the dead, from their graves, stuff like that, and walking very slowly.

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

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

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

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.

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.