I wanted to do 'Fargo' rather than do a TV production. I've been offered TV things over the years, but usually, that's about that I don't want to be away from home for that long because it's a long time to be away your home country and my family.
I enjoy things that are so far away from me; that's why, when I play things that are a little bit closer to me, I get really bored. When it's something that's the antithesis of what I am, there's much more to lose yourself in.
It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.
After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week.
Trying to keep a relationship going on the phone is disastrous.
I've been offered TV things over the years, but usually, that's about that I don't want to be away from home for that long, because it's a long time to be away your home country and my family.
When you do something well, this is the best job in the world.
A lot of the city boys in London, a lot of the hedge-fund, young city workers at the height of the financial boom were a lot of working-class, brilliantly minded young fellows and women.
I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.
I thought 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' was terrible. I'm a big fan of Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, so I don't know what went wrong with that.
I'm often cast as religious figures, good and bad, such as 'Kingdom Of Heaven.'
I like tourists. I think it's nice to live in a town that people come from all over to visit.
What is truth? What is a true story? Who is telling the truth, and what is truth in this world today?
I often do that with characters, going back to my bloody drama-school days, in terms of equating them with creatures. And it's very much there as a theme of all the seasons of 'Fargo' as well: the predator and the prey.
I really like Los Angeles. I like the weather, the openness of it, the beach, the mountains, the desert. I find it inspiring. I get quite a lot of writing done out there.
I started doing the big Hollywood stuff, and I realised, 'Oh, there's no rehearsal at all; you just turn up on the set, and sometimes you haven't even met the other actor, or the woman who's playing your wife, and you're suddenly in bed with them.'
You can't actually be just a movie actor in Britain, because we don't make that many movies.
I am the sort of guy who does go to modern art shows.
The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.
I got hooked to American news like a great TV season. It plays like fiction. I would come home from work, and I would put it on, and I would stay up until 2 in the morning watching it and get up in the morning and watch it.
I've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do.
Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it.
I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country - if anything, just the opposite.
The whole question of 'What is truth?' seemed to be the theme of Trump's presidency.
I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences.
I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?'
I paint a bit myself. My house in Clerkenwell has a room that is done up like a big installation.
Playing a character who becomes a Buddhist was a great experience.
I did 'Basic Instinct 2' because I had a baby about to be born, and the director said we could shoot before the due date.
I'm much more Buddhist. I mean, I'm not a Buddhist. I should be so lucky to be a Buddhist, a real Buddhist, but of all the things I investigated, that seems to make the most sense to me.
I must have read three-quarters of 'Anna Karenina' on my phone. Which might be a record.
I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.
I like time off. I'm not a workaholic.
Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house.
I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world.
I've never been that bothered about doing stage or television. I just love doing films. With theatre, it goes on night after night.
I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.
I see people around me with very unhappy love lives, who may have held out for that perfect somebody. And the failure to achieve that brings along a lot of bitterness which is very unattractive; therefore they're probably less likely to achieve it.
The thing about 'Harry Potter' is it's great fun because of the people - I was usually with Julie Walters and Mark Williams, Brendan Gleeson, Robbie Coltrane, and the kids. Wonderful, funny, amazing people. If you're going to hang around on a set bored, you might as well do it with Julie Walters.
In the prepping for 'Azkaban,' I read 'Azkaban' and 'Goblet of Fire.'
In 'Seven Years In Tibet,' I played a Buddhist. But I'm not religious at all, really.
I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant.
I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a lighthearted series of jokes and slapstick. I wanted to talk about some deeper things within the comedy.
No matter what one looks at and finds temporarily pleasing, it can never be as beautiful as just a tree, really.
The world is enormously dangerous and scary. I worry very much for my daughter. I'm not sure we're in control any more, and I think the Internet is partly responsible for that.
When I'm sat in the pub with my mates, they've got their stories: Richard and Tracy have split up, they went to Arsenal and this fight broke out... My anecdotes are like, 'I was in this bar, and Michelle Pfeiffer rang, and I had wax in my ear, so I couldn't hear what she was saying...'
I don't think its good for the soul to invest too much of yourself in technology.
I think Varga is a manifestation, certainly, and someone who can thrive and profit from the world's failure and has worked out the operation, whatever the operation may be, that he's about, which will remain a mystery.
I was a young actor in my 20s, going out in Soho, having a wild time.
