When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.

I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.

I think it serves the purpose of the film if the premise is that you're unsure of me because you've only ever really seen me play villains.

I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play.

The Peugeot is a very unthreatening car.

Rowan Joffe is very specific. I mean, he wrote it as well and he has a very orderly writer's mind and the same applies to his directing.

The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it, because the minute the shoot ends, it's got nothing to do with you anymore.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.

It’s all short, sweet and simple, but it’s all a moment’s worth.

From those to whom privilege and opportunity are given, we have the right to expect much.

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature.

The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

I have dogs in my house and much like teenagers at some point, they leave the parents. Even though they're in the same house, they live independently. I think that's how I live with the Chihuahuas.

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

I had a good time shooting in New Zealand. I almost bought a home there while I was there, because I loved it so much.

No disaster is worse than being discontented.

It was one of those and so they died/the end stories, that made us demigods feels all warm and fuzzy inside.-Percy