When I did A Doll’s House I felt like I learnt so much, … That’s another reason to do this, I wanted to push myself and see what else I could learn from doing it....

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

Yeah, Dad can go and write a script, but if I did something else, I’d produce.

The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It’s really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they’re actually really happy, good- natured people.

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

Young actors are serious about their work and don’t take any time out from it. I’m very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I’ve done where I had a really good...

Every director is completely different.

I find that I get very lost in certain things and that it is hard to let go. Often, certain characteristics stay with you from characters.

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn’t work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

[Many children follow their parents into the theatre. Hilary Bell is a playwright, while Lucy is an actor. Sacha Horler (daughter of Ken and Lillian Horler, co-founders of the Nimrod), Felix Williamson (son of David),...

I’d always had a big thing for the ’60s.

You’ve got a shocking temper.

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even...

I’m glad I didn’t [have children] when I was younger because I don’t think I could have given so much of myself to it, … I think I would have been more selfish. I’m really...

It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact.