I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

I'm a hard-mouthed north-eastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.

When you have a child, you are just immediately changed forever. You put yourself second. Your child comes first, and everything that you do is with them in mind.

New York is great for people watching and there's a bunch of amazing rooftops.

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.

I'm awkward around girls.

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

Single minded vision gives the strength of purpose.

In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.

The minute what you think of as radical becomes an institutionalised, funded operation, you're in some trouble.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Money to me is just the biggest blessing in the world that allows me freedom.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality.

I was known to spout off about [ politics and religion] sometimes, especially in my drinkin' days! It was pretty dangerous actually.

One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.