I never want to overstay my welcome for any character. I would rather people are excited by the ideas a character generates in them rather than feeling bored and wishing he would just go away.
When I come home, all I do is cook. I love cooking, so I go to markets, buy food, cook it for friends. I love doing that.
One of the things I noticed in my career that gave me a lot of happiness early on was realising we don't have any control.
It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies.
Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around.
I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.
Sport is not my thing.
Eating cold tuna fish out of a tin on a porch while two people are in love across a lake - I think that's desperately lonely.
Everybody has many people inside of them. I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want.
I was asked by this British band called Kairos 4Tet to write lyrics for them. And I wrote lyrics for them. The album is called 'Everything We Hold,' and you can hear my lyrics.
The one thing I couldn't imagine is stopping still.
I've been a big blagger all my life.
My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs.
Becoming that guy who does one thing is not very interesting. I'm lucky and proud to have been involved in period films and action films.
I went to a drama club when I was little, but it was more of an excuse to flirt with girls than anything else. We never put on plays.
I'm always interested in what we're not being shown. So if you're playing ostensibly a quote-unquote 'baddie,' what are their good sides, and vice versa.
I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.
I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.
I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.
I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that.
