I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media. I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor.

Hollywood is my domestic idyll.

My idea of quality is my own idea of quality. What I do and what I want to do next is my business. The next thing I fall in love with might be what you think is rubbish.

I wasnt a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.