I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.