The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.

Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.