But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.

I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you'd be naive if you didn't try to hold on to your own way of doing things.

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.