Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead.

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.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.