People tell me I look mournful. They say, ‘Cheer up, Dan, it’s not that bad!’ Sometimes I just look into space, which freaks people out. If I was ever required to do anything other than...

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it’s the minimum that I answer myself.

I’m never going to be in something as commercially successful as ‘Harry Potter’ ever again. It’s impossible. So that gives me incredible freedom to go off and make the slightly off-the-wall films that I want...

Part of an actor’s job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

It’s been an odd five years, but it’s been great,

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There’s a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

As far as I can tell, most actors’ main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

My parents are left-wing, and I would describe myself as that. But also, you know what? I wouldn’t describe myself as that. Because I don’t have to. Because I’m not a political party. Most people...

I’ve worked every day since I was 10. I don’t know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I’d rather be doing.

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.

He talked about it having a central spine with these little offshoots, I guess you’d call them nerve-endings, coming off it, … These little other strands that he kept reiterating, in which every scene had...