I invented the historical spy novel.
I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.
The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.
Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.
I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.
I still don't look like what I think I look like.
As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.
But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.
How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.
I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourselves. It's a little bit surreal but kind of fun. You can play with the whole family.
My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.