I Was 16 When I Was In

People In Scotland Appreciate Homegrown Talent, But It's Getting Harder And Harder To Get Films Made In Britain.

I Do Tend To Divide My Childhood Into Darkness And Light, And The First Seven Years Were Certainly The Darkness.

So Many Of My Friends, Old Friends I Haven't Seen In Years, Made Their Way Out There And Got Lost, Then Found Their Way Back. That Seems Believable To Me.

I Have A Reputation For Being An Improvisational Actor, Which Is True, But I Also Know What I'm Doing So That If The Improvisational Strand Doesn't Work I Can Go Back To What I Know's Already There.

A Lot Of The Characters I Play Have Problems, They Are Marginalised, They Have Serious Psychological Problems, Problems With Relationships, With Childhood. These Are Big Subjects, Big Subjects. You Can't Balk At Work Like That. As An Actor, That's As Good As It Gets.