I work best when a little scared, when there's so much more than the lines to think about.

I work best when a little scared, when there's so much more than the lines to think about.

The script for 'Infamous' was so poised between tragedy and comedy. It's a dream part. One reads those scripts with a sense of melancholia. When you read a script that good I remember thinking, 'Oh, this script is too good. They'll never give it to me.'

When working abroad you work pretty hard, but with time off, this is the greatest job in the world. You drive. You explore Memphis, or wherever you've landed, or go and see Dr John, or the Californian landscape. And, yes, I've had a few good meals.

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.

I would absolutely like to play more leading roles. There’s no philosophy - well, the only philosophy, I suppose, is to try and do different things.

I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds.