As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or rural areas outside of the city, that's what they do - climb walls, or trees, or whatever. To me, it was more dance classes and not being very boyish.

It's weird how an actor can read a script and think 'it's really good, it's really funny, that's going to be really dramatic...' and then you get there and say: "Oh, I have to get in it? I have to get in the water?! Are you kidding?"

I think I have much more appreciation for directing and movies overall versus a performance or an actor. Their body of work is more interesting.

Sometimes great things come from doing things quickly and not over-thinking stuff.

I think movie making can sometimes make you lazy in your approach. Occasionally you'll be shooting a scene and it's not even your coverage but you'll catch yourself slipping away and you'll see your mind going somewhere else. But you just can't afford to do that on stage.

I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.

I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.

I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.

I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.