Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country.

You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

The success of the film is down to the crew.

Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

In terms of jumping into a characters skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is whats required to achieve what I want to achieve.

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.

Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.

I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in.

Without the earth, where can humankind live?

In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

I was rather a goody-goody as a child... It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

I didn't know it would be black," she murmured with a little smile. Horror flooded his face. "Oh, Christ!

Ideas are nothing, doing is everything

Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him.

Things you never thought were going to turn into something end up being the most important things in your life. You have to learn to not try to control it.

After Skins I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.