It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.

As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.

Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.

I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.