There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and they're in complete control, that's more scary than if they're out of control.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.

Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.

A British villain never loses their sense of humour.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.