I know I don't go looking for directors. I always wonder why they chose me.
I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.
I'll tell you, being on set on 'Harry Potter' was nerve-wracking. It was surreal to be in a room with those three kids, all of whom know exactly what they're doing.
If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.
I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.
When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'
I've never traveled to promote anything I've been in. I've only been to about two or three premieres. The way I work, I do bits, and then I'm off to something else, whether it's theater or another project.
Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.
Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.
The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice to be part of people who are in the same enterprise, heading for the same goal, rather than, 'Oh this is all about me and my role. The story's about me.'
For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.
I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?
I'd never really been in a series, where you see a man at different points and perspectives in his life. Usually it's a film, where I'm playing a character who just comes in and offers something up.
I've got a fairly low profile - I go and do me shopping when I need to!
You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether you hit that note right.
I'd love to get into some comedy, but people keep saying, 'You're not funny!' And I say, 'Well, fair enough.' I have done comedy on stage.
In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.
That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.
I don't hold much of care for 3D. I think it's a passing fad. It came and went in the '60s. I don't see what it adds to the story.
To be quite honest. I have seen a few things in 3D, and it didn't involve me anymore than when I saw something in 2D.
