Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.

We are what the past has made us. We are what the future will make us. Live now. Right now.

If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on.

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.

Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in Batman; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

We pull on to the road, where our only company are the wandering cattle, who have become commonplace as traffic lights. Lethargic and listless, they look like they've been roaming the roads of Guinea since the dawn of time. And no doubt they will continue to long after we're gone.