I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.

My thing is, I like playing guys who have a really interesting internal monologue.

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.

Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.

British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'

Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.