“The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunni...” — Idris Elba Quote

“The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.”

“Every single film I've done, it's about the character.”

“I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.”

“The silliest, most frustrating national dialogue has been this chattering about waterboarding and slapping around bad guys in order to extract information from them.”

“You just don't see Muslims being matter-of-fact Muslim. They're always defined by their Muslim-ness. We're either terrorists, or we're fighting terrorists. I remember seeing 'True Lies' and going, 'Why are we always the bad guys?'”

“I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy.”