I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
People have this belief that actors are able to go out there and say, 'Oh I choose this job,' but most of the time we're just taking the job we can get. We don't just get offered thousands of jobs; we might earn one job a year and that's the one we'll take because we've got to pay the rent.

