I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!

Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

If you want to learn about America, watch The Wire. Its a profound piece of entertainment.

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.