In animation, you can throw away people's defense. You can go right to the center of things, right through inside someone's heart. The characters anyway, they do represent different aspects of all of us - and put them all together, you get a human being. And so it's got a wonderful purity, a real purity that's so moving, exiting, everything.

It's very important to make the man believable so that you can stretch the fantasy. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question.

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories, anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun too!

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

In animation, you can throw away people's defense. You can go right to the center of things, right through inside someone's heart. The characters anyway, they do represent different aspects of all of us - and put them all together, you get a human being. And so it's got a wonderful purity, a real purity that's so moving, exiting, everything.

If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.