You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

I love the idea of messing around with different mediums.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

I like the idea of experimenting with different kinds of formats, and I think you've got to keep on your toes and keep changing.

I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.

A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of flowery films. But I think it's a nice change of pace-I don't know how long it'll go for. There will always be the Merchant-Ivory/Kenneth Branagh movies, but there's something else now-really, it's always been there but the Americans getting to see it makes all the difference.