Ewan McGregor

I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.

My feeling about seeing the world is that it's going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything. And if you don't connect to that foundation, if you don't believe in that and feel that you wanna spend three, four months of your life exploring it, then all of the other elements are secondary.

If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.

I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.

When I was a kid I was much happier watching old movies than kids' TV, and I ended up watching all the old Ealing comedies.

The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

You can be playing a line some way and the director wants you to change that, or you can disagree. But I always think that the creative conversation between director and actor is what leads to good work.

It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.