I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.
I rant and rave about noise pollution.
My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out.
Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.
A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.
I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.
People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.
Acting is a really insular thing.
Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.
Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.
Hunger's a great spur.
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.
I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet.
I hate the word 'hippy.'
I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.
I never go anywhere without my iPod.
I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.
I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!'
I owe my father everything.