It wasn't the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say they've played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie.
When I'm sat in the pub with my mates, they've got their stories: Richard and Tracy have split up, they went to Arsenal and this fight broke out... My anecdotes are like, 'I was in this bar, and Michelle Pfeiffer rang, and I had wax in my ear, so I couldn't hear what she was saying...'
'Harry Potter' is very nice because it's very easy to make children happy. All you have to do is have your photograph taken with them.
One can only improvise what one knows.
I don't think its good for the soul to invest too much of yourself in technology.
I'm not one of those people who's against doing remakes.
I've been offered TV things over the years, but usually, that's about that I don't want to be away from home for that long, because it's a long time to be away your home country and my family.
I often draw from people in my own experience to base a character on, going back to my days with Mike Leigh.
I paint a bit myself. My house in Clerkenwell has a room that is done up like a big installation.
Playing a character who becomes a Buddhist was a great experience.
We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it.
People sometimes say, 'Why do you choose a part?' and sometimes it's not that I chose it but that that was the one that came along.
I had no idea how one became an actor. I didn't know things such as drama schools existed. It all just sort of happened accidentally.
Before Anna, I'd had a few relationships and I'm glad I've been around a bit. I know where it's gone wrong or know who are the wrong people for me and who I might be wrong for.
I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world.
I could, of course, have written about the film world and the jealousy there and the frequent belief that others don't have talent. But, for some reason, it just struck me to write about art.
