The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting..

I just invited close friends and family, the usual suspects whose opinion I value but who I know will enjoy the film [Before I Go To Sleep]. I don't ….

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having child….

I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play..

The Peugeot is a very unthreatening car..

All these portrayals we see of knights fighting must be absolute rubbish because knights in armour could literally have only had two or three blows a….

Rowan Joffe is very specific. I mean, he wrote it as well and he has a very orderly writer's mind and the same applies to his directing..

You need to try to find a way to humanize your villains. Genuine villains, in real life, still have mothers and daughters and sisters, and they fall ….

Rowan Joffe was on top of everything. He knew exactly how he wanted everything to be, right down to the fact when I made those telephone calls, I did….

In the movie, you have to decide as an actor how you are going to give a character presence. You can't really move, walk, and talk like yourself. Thi….

Interestingly, this character [Doctor Nash] is probably closer to me than somebody like the evil Sir Godfrey in Robin Hood or Lord Blackwood who want….

I think it serves the purpose of the film if the premise is that you're unsure of me because you've only ever really seen me play villains..

I've put my friends and family through the wringer over the years, I have to say, by doing unspeakable things to people, not the least of which was p….

It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that oppor….

I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and ….

I just like voicing films in general. I do a lot of documentary work and it's a short hop really to narrating a character, especially if you're on fi….

In the film industry you never really know if all the various ingredients will come together - sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. As an act….

[Before I Go To Sleep] script was a great journey with all the twists and turns that were kind of unexpected. I had to finish the script, and I thoug….

I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play. It was just a little thing….

My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of ob….

I'm sure part of the baggage that I bring having played a lot of villains is also pertinent to the movie [Before I Go To Sleep], because I'm sure peo….