“American actors are very different to British actors who have generall...” — Joe Wright Quote

“American actors are very different to British actors who have generally studied and been brought up culturally with the sense that the writer is the star and that their job is to serve the writing. Whereas Hollywood actors are brought up to believe that the actor is the star, and everything and everybody is in the service of them.”

“I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.”

“I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.”

“British actors used to be scared of the multi-year options that U.S. TV shows demand. That has changed, because the same is now happening in the U.K.”

“I think, as a generation of British actors, we're becoming a bit soft and too manipulated by the business.”

“I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a 'Mission: Impossible.'”