There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.

Very, very often in movie sex you see this fiction about unity. A union. That somehow these two thinking beings become one, and there's one action and they're sort of perfectly in sync, and the lighting's perfect, and they've got their eyes closed, and they're gone, you know? And then you cut to someone having a cigarette. And it's all so much Novocain. Meanwhile, those of us us watching it are going "I'm never going to tell anybody, but I never have sex like that".

It's exotic for me to be given a script that's already written, and be given a pay cheque, and asked to dress up and play, and that's all.

We were very clear that this film's [Young Adam] so much about a relationship that's borne out through the sexual contact, and that that's the way they communicate.

I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.

The problem for me is that I look like so many people in my family, so I can't really see anything. Except I could say that I look rather like my father without his mustache.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.