Drawing is the only thing I've found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it's a struggle because I'm pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.

A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.

Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.

I could never plan to have a career that went this well... you know, there were times when it didn't: when it went into the toilet, or ducked, or was difficult to get moving.

I've been really terrible in a lot of things because I learned by making mistakes. That makes you a different kind of actor, because you have to figure out for yourself what you do.

I don't like parties. There was never a party I was at where I didn't wish I was somewhere else.

The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like you. The process of filmmaking is so difficult, there's no point in doing it unless you can do it the way you want.

If I had gone to drama school, I wouldn't be sitting here now because it would have blanded me out; it would have just turned me into another actor.