I have no regrets.

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there’s a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

When you get into the edit you’ll understand what making a film is. You’ll see all the things you missed and all the possibilities you have from what you shot.

I’ve never felt fallow in the sense that there’s been no work.

It’s thrilling to have the opportunity to work in different areas, whether it’s on a project that has all the resources behind it like Harry Potter or James Bond and then to go somewhere there’s very few resources.

I don’t feel I’m playing villains all the time.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it’s a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you’re not playing yourself.

I think I feel more like you’re an actor for hire and you take the jobs you want to take, obviously, and some pay well and some don’t pay well at all but you go on a gut feeling and it’s all a big adventure.

News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment, people are working, organising...

I’m more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom.