What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get only these public-school-type army officers talking about what was going on out there. I kept thinking, 'Why don't we get the true voice of the squaddie? Why don't we hear from the lads on the battlefield?'

I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will.

When I was an actor, I was part of a team, which I loved. You are a part inside something which is larger.

A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home.

The one thing that I'm absolutely sure about is that the people of Gaza aren't going anywhere. And neither are the people of Israel.

Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.

On my travels around the world, I've met people in countries where democracy doesn't exist and if it does, they are intimidated into voting in a certain way.