Game of Thrones' fans are the nicest people ever, but a thousand nice people coming at me gives me claustrophobia.

Any swagger is just defense. When you're reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.

I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I'd heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader.

A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them.