"That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand." — Stephen Fry

Generally, we admire the thing we are not.

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.