so often my own emotions were hidden not only from other people but from myself. or perhaps it was the other way round: i was hiding from them.

The most frustrating thing is picking up a script and loving the roles in it except the female ones... It's really annoying and something I've striven to change in the industry.

You should have seen me at 14, with braces and glasses, gangly and doing ballet!

We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.

It's always good to have a story arch.

Chris was a friend of mine, I loved him. I didn't see him for 18 months before he died, but I'd met him several times after the accident. What was remarkable was his personal growth in his interior life.