I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me.

The darker the character, the more interesting.

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

My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.

Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four.

Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.