It's the guy who drives the fast cars, can beat up the rest of the guys and gets the girl, ... You could say it's a working-class James Bond. A Bond who drinks Heineken and not Dom Perignon champagne. He's a bit less refined, but still very capable.

A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly, you've got a chance of something else, but sometimes it just doesn't work that way. Ideally, it's insurance for the future; if you can do something, if you can find a character that people really do like, then you're very lucky.

I'm very fussy. I'm very hard to please.

People love stories about the mafia: 'The Godfather,' 'American Gangster.'

'The Bank Job,' for me, was a great opportunity for me to do some good acting, you know?

I suppose that's the European way, dangerous and hairy.