When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.

You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.

I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. Don't rock the boat.'

When I have my moments of insomnia, you'll find me on style.com.

Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.