I`m an actor who does really interesting work in independent movies. I want to keep doing that because I don`t want the burden of an opening weekend sitting on my shoulders.
As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, `I want to do movies.` Then it was finding the means to do it.
In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.
I was living in London and I thought, `there`s nothing here for me anymore`. I don`t want to become this actor who`s going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I`d rather do bad movies th...