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

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'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 never go anywhere without my iPod.

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.

I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.