Quotes from Christopher Eccleston

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye.

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture.

I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.

I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.