You can't spend your life apologizing.

The only film I ever made for money was something called 'Music From Another Room', which I really didn't like.

I only want to do the kind of work that I would like to go and see, that’s going to teach me something new, that involves working with people I can learn something from and I can give something to.

I think it’s a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.

Look, how many stories have I broken? Hundreds. How many have proved to be untrue? There isn’t one.

I don’t want to do anything that I’m not passionate about.

When someone like Steven Soderbergh asks you to do a film you know you’re in good hands. You know it’s going to be slick, and it’s going to be intelligent, and it’s going to have a kind of style to it, and I would probably have done anything to be really honest.

It’s interesting to see how people bring different things to them. I think it comes down to the universal appeal of the Holmes-Watson that they can keep being discovered in different ways.

There are always seasons to a career and perhaps always the grass is often greener, you’re often looking at other people’s careers going, “Damn, they get all the good roles. Why didn’t I read that? Why didn’t they ask me to do that?”

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I’ve regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.