If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.
I'm not particularly affable in real life, I have to tell you. I've got that side to me, of course, but that's not all I am.
I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.
I am a fan of the Coen brothers. I'm not a fanatic. I'm a big admirer. They create unique worlds, and there is a real atmosphere to their films. Not everyone can get that. That's a massive part of their appeal: you can recognise them. Like all the great directors or artists, you know it when you see it.
I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.
'The Hobbit' would have been very difficult to pass on, do you know what I mean? It's not the kind of ship that comes into dock very often.
Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.
I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.
I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
The reason I've never gone for pilot season even as a younger actor, and wouldn't entertain that sort of thing now, is the idea of signing a piece of paper that binds me for six or seven years.
If you want your film to be instantly green-lit, your first approach is not to go to a relatively unknown English actor. They're not going to throw millions of dollars at you for that.
We can all look on the Internet and go, 'He hates me! Oh, but she loves me. Oh, but he hates me,' you know. And that way, madness lies.
To my mind there are not enough things that show the Nazis as human, as smart people, charismatic people, who are not inhuman naturally. But who are able to be fantastically inhuman when they choose to be.
You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.
There are always challenges to green screen.
'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.
Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.
