I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn’t feel an affinity for them then they wouldn’t be particularly good performances.
As an actor, to play someone who’s at war with himself, that’s so interesting.
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.
I do feel like I’m not entirely an insider.
Never send a human to do a machine’s job.
One of the positive aspects from my point of view in terms of lifestyle doing film is that I can say “Well, I’m now going to have three months where I’m just going to hang out and be with the family”.
In a real fight, there ain’t no time and you’ve got to use your wits. If someone were threatening the life of my child, then I’d be a good fighter. If somebody just wanted to steal my wallet, well, maybe I wouldn’t worry about it so much.
I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.
If a film isn’t really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we’re probably not that interested in it, actually.
I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in.
I didn’t get my licence because I wasn’t allowed to. But I haven’t had a seizure for a long time so I could, theoretically, get my licence. But I’m now just so used to not driving, I’m scared of what I’d do.
The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.
People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that’s good.
It’s great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.
It’s kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it’s educated me a little bit more.
I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone’s got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven’t.
I certainly don’t advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either.
I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I’m feeling great.
If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I’m really very keen to work on it.
When you’re a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.
Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.