It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.

You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It's wonderful. What I've always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I'm just starting to get that, and it's really lovely.

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

I always think that the ability to fight and defend oneself is a skill that every man should have but endeavour never to use, you know?