Quotes

We never find what we set out hearts on. We ought to be glad of that.

The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.

The Orkney imagination is haunted by time.

Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps.

... do we exist under a St George's Cross? The Union Jack? The European Union? Do we need borders? Are you gay? Are you straight? Are you both? Do you need to have a label? Do you just love people? Trying to identify yourself gives you something to identify with, but that's only positive if it allows you to feel comfortable in expressing yourself, because some of the time, by breaking yourself off, you cut yourself off from others.

The process of building a character changes with each character and story as there are different things asked of you by each one. The context of that character is always important ... [w]here they grew up, how they speak, what they do, what's happened to them before the story begins - all that informs how they move, talk, and express themselves ... understanding how their context shapes them adds levels ... to convincingly get across what they are thinking.

Especially in this industry, in terms of representation, whether it's of people of colour or equality between genders or sexuality. I thought we weren't prejudiced but actually, if you think about how many white blokes sit at the top of many companies, or stories even, you go, 'Oh s**t, I didn't realise there was an imbalance, because that imbalance served me'.

The beauty of theatre is the excitement of it; it lives in that moment; it has the same energy of a gig. But with film and photography, you capture the moment. It's curated forever. And I think that's a wonderful thing.

So much of what I've learned on-set has been through people who went to drama school-a fellow actor doing a technique or exercise that they've learned. Having not gone to drama school, I was always hungry to learn... I got to go to drama school through them really.