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" 'Naked' propelled me into a whole other league. America started calling. I went over to Los Angeles and met all those people, and I started doing a few American films of various levels of quality. "

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" 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. "

" Before Anna, I'd had a few relationships and I'm glad I've been around a bit. I know where it's gone wrong or know who are the wrong people for me and who I might be wrong for. "

" I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. "

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" 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. "

" It's not my ambition to direct lots of films. I think if I direct one film in my whole life, why rush it? "

" I love being a dad. "

" 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. "

" It's not the easiest thing to have two actors in a family. "

" It's certainly not easy having to spend a lot of time apart, and having a five-year-old child who's got to be at school. So we need to learn how to organize our time really well because for months we will be in two different countries. "

" Trying to keep a relationship going on the phone is disastrous. "

" I often draw from people in my own experience to base a character on, going back to my days with Mike Leigh. "

" 'An Inspector Calls' is a British classic, and I am thrilled to be working on this beautiful screen adaptation with Aisling Walsh. "

" I was a young actor in my 20s, going out in Soho, having a wild time. "

" I'm not one of those people who's against doing remakes. "

" Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it. "

" 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. "

" I paint a bit myself. My house in Clerkenwell has a room that is done up like a big installation. "

" The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid's faces when you tell them you've done it. "

" 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. "

" The oddest things happen to me. It goes in seasons. Nothing will happen for a long time, and I miss it, and I remember how these strange coincidences used to happen to me and how amazing it was, how it made me want to believe in something. A year will go by, and then a slew of them will come along, like buses, one after another. "

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" I think the most beautiful sound is a child laughing. "

" 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. "

" You become judged entirely on your ability to bring in the dollars, and the fact that none of the films I did was a huge hit became significant. "

" 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. "

" 'Naked' kind of kicked me off into the film world. It just so happens that all of the things that I have been offered have been films, and I've enjoyed the travel that goes along with that. "

" 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. "

" I've never been that bothered about doing stage or television. I just love doing films. With theatre, it goes on night after night. "