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[on what show he would have liked to guest star in] Six Feet Under (2001) if it was still on, that was the best TV program of all time, or Deadwood (2004) or Carnivale (2003), any of those HBO shows I just love, I think they are great.

The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It's like a commune and gets very intense and very sociable. Then when I am not working, I shut myself away, so I can see myself living up a mountain.

I saw David Lynch's The Elephant Man (1980) when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I found it so beautiful, strange and mesmerizing that I went back to the cinema every night for a week to see it.

[on playing troubled characters] I don't think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess I'm quite extreme, quite big and quite loud, and maybe people pick up on that when they cast me. I'm certainly not the quiet reflective type.

I'm a great candidate for why arts funding shouldn't be cut, because I had no experience other than what was at school, I'm from a working-class town, there were no theaters, and the cinema closed when I was a kid.Anything that gave me a voice or a way to express myself I went running headlong toward.