Quotes

[on spending time in south Africa] There's so many near death experiences, that near death just becomes like getting a coffee in the morning - it keeps you awake and alive, and the waves are pretty good - it's always pumping in south Africa somewhere.

Once you go into a movie you learn with your character and you build and develop this person and then by the time wrap happens you 'graduate'.

[on filming Son of a Gun (2014) The 400-metre walk through the prison yard, with inmates hurling abuse, "created a real sense of unease", he says. "It was very intimidating, very scary for me. But I'd have to say a lot of the actors on the movie were twice as gnarly as the inmates."

[interview with Jonathan Moran, October 2014] I have a lot of love in my life but I don't have any partner at the moment.

[on his film Gods of Egypt (2016) and co-star Gerard Butler] It is like 300 (2006), because Gerard Butler is a pair of knickers swinging a sword in this one too.