People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor.

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

People are sheepish when they approach me.

Working in South Africa and the people in Johannesburg get under your skin. It stays with you. It's a place I want to take my children back to. It's a place that filled me with great joy and inspiration but also sadness. I think it's one of the most complex places on the planet.

Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to that role. The audience needs to stay with you, identify with you and like you. When you play the bad guy, those rules go out the window. There's so much freedom there.