I'm afraid I don't have a very pragmatic or unromantic view of props. I don't imbue them with any great sense of mystery or anything.
I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.
With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that.
I grew up in the suburbs, so I remember arriving at Waterloo and seeing Big Ben and the coloured lights on top of the Southbank Centre and thinking, 'Wow!'
I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer.
I don't like 'cool telly.'
As soon as a job finishes, I am done with it. When I'm really, really enjoying the job, I love the job, I want it to end because it's supposed to.
On the surface, you think you wouldn't have to think at all about being asked to play Bilbo in 'The Hobbit.' It's not prison; it's a good gig. But you know it's going to take a long time, and it does. There are times when you thought: 'Gee, I've not seen my house for months.'
There are about 20 people in my life that I want to love me, and none of them are the 'Daily Mail.'
I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.
I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.
What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
We all know that people who've never been on a film set think it's way more glamorous than the people who work on them.
I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.
I like being called 'Mr. Freeman' occasionally.
My default state is wariness.
My main priority in any job is when is the soonest I can get back to the three people I love most in the world.
It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked.
If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that.
If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.
