“It was a real character piece.”

It’s a good way of getting you into the zone for the scene.

Because I play the trumpet and sing. I’d like to incorporate that into a character.

You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.

I’d like to do a lead action role.

It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements.

In terms of what I’m looking for, I’d like to do a lead action role.

It has a very mystic energy which informs you as an actor.

It’s a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

And then, with a European director and Norwegian actors speaking in Norwegian, it was going to be very interesting.

It’s one of the most beautiful places on this planet.

The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off – I’d rather stay in character.

Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me.

. It has to look real. That in itself becomes challenging because you have to learn it straight away.

So, whatever initial trepidation or fear I may have had was alleviated by those factors.

A lot of the moves are split legs, and twisting fast.

My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home.

She was surrounded by neighbours and friends who congregated at her bedside day and night.

I guess I’m a pretty curious person.

Or the track of the band as low as they like it, you can really hear all of the nuances and the mistakes if there are any.

I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned.

We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.

Nobody wants to watch perfect people.

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

One must also accept that one has ‘uncreative’ moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.