Our Job Is To Represent The Truth

What Le Carré Is So Good At Is Unpicking Something Very Specific About Englishness. That Is Almost Part Of Why I Think He Wrote The Novel. You Can Feel Le Carré's Anger That Someone Who Has Had The Benefits Of An English Education And An English Upbringing Is Using That Privilege To Basically Do The Worst Things Imaginable. There Is An Anger In The Book About That.

If You Look At All Of The Villains In The Course Of Human History, They've All Believed, Delusionally, In The Virtue Of Their Actions - Every Villain Is A Hero In His Own Mind.

When You're Starting Out As An Actor People Are Very Interested In Who You Are Because They Want To Know Where They Can Put You. And Quite Often, And We're All Guilty Of This Is Our Lives, We Judge Very Quickly And We Pigeon-hole People Very Quickly Based On How They Look And How They Talk And How They Dress And We Think: "oh Yeah, We Know Who You Are."

The Dream Is To Keep Surprising Yourself, Never Mind The Audience.

Make Love, Not War. Unless You’re Loki, In Which Case: Do What You Want.