I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take a character that you think is wildly different from who you are, and to try to relate to that person and become that person is very helpful. It's hard to articulate what you learn, but you can feel the effect of these characters that you play and take with you.

If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.

I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.

I like all kinds of movies, I love movies; and I always wanted to try and make one.

Women aren't interested in being sexy any more and men are. All the guys have objectified themselves and sexualised themselves into being just matinee idols.

I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.

I feel there is something nice about not talking. Like you can say more by actually saying less.