I thought 'Skyfall' was a sumptuous film.

If I could film, we’d film every episode of ‘Doctor Who’ in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It has some wonderful locations and it is devastatingly vast and huge. Central Park looks amazing on camera.

The fact that you’ve got zombies in this movie allows you to make slightly bolder choices tonally.

As we get older – perhaps I’m just speaking for myself – we can get too cynical.

I think there are definite parallels between sport and art. There’s a real sense of sacrifice. There’s a real sense of dedication that is needed in sport that I think you can attribute to art. I think so much of it is about bravery and courage, being an actor.

At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, ‘All right, Doctor Who?’ And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.

I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and ‘Doctor Who’ would be on with my flatmate there. I would have loved to share the fact that I was the new Doctor, but I couldn’t. I was going mad. My dad was rather flabbergasted. When I told him, he laughed. He was excited, elated and very proud.

Even now, I’m very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left.

When I’m painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I’m saying, not how I’m saying it.

When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, “That’s it for the rest of your life.” I’ll be Doctor to a whole generation when they’re 50.