Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

There's an alarm bell that goes off in my head if I can sense that I'm making a mistake.

Years ago, when James Bulger was murdered, every newspaper front page was talking about evil. At that point, having suppressed it for years, I remembered when I was four or five, I tried to kill my own brother.

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

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

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

We [ with Ewan McGregor] decided exactly what we would do at every moment, what the texture would be.