Actor

I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.

I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.

Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.

Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.

Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

I had bags of energy as a kid.

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry.

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture.

I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!

Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.