I’m doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It’s a wonderful script.

I don’t like acting things; I like feeling things.

Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it’s the way it pans out.

I try and do films I know I’m going to enjoy watching as well as being in.

I tend to do golf charity things because it’s much safer and you don’t get much chance of a broken arm or leg.

You’re making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you’re not going to go and see it. I’d rather see paint dry.

Sometimes you just can’t walk away from films you’re offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.

I just love jumping into someone else’s life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

Method acting is a label I don’t really understand, because there’s a method to everybody’s acting.

You could tell immediately there was a great history to this guy, as revealed in the pilot. He has a sense of confidence about how things will turn out. He has great charm and great wit and is incredibly intelligent and meticulous. Nothing escapes him.