There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you'd be naive if you didn't try to hold on to your own way of doing things.
I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.
I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.
I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.