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I lost my mind at 15. I'd been shown a world where there were no boundaries, where everyone gave me all the power. And I was like, 'This is great!' Then that was gone. But I was like, 'Yeah, but I still want that.' I'd lost my humble, very quiet, introverted sensibilities which I think I definitely had as a kid.

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Humble, Been, Very, No Boundaries

I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.

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Think, I Think, Had, Angst

I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.

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Choosing, Different Ways, Routes

I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.

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Think, Need, I Think, Advise

I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.

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Passionate, Some, Very, Animated

I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies; they're so beautiful to look at. It's such a shame we don't make them anymore. Although, I don't know how you could make tap dancing current and topical.

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Love, Dancing, Shame, Topical

Music is pretty therapeutic.

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Music, Pretty, Therapeutic

Every interview I do, it's basically 'how did he do it,' and I owe it all to my representation, and my manager is basically like my mother, she's so picky.

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Manager, Like, Picky, Interview

I'm a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.

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Me, England, Lad, Northeast

My favourite superhero is obviously Batman because he's the sexiest. But I can't imagine myself as Batman.

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Myself, Superhero, Imagine, Sexiest

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.

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Hate, Amazing, Through, None

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

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Think, I Think, Films, Braver

Inner demons? Got none of them.

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Inner, Them, None, Demons

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

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Never, Peter, Really, Parker

My characters are often without a significant parental figure.

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Often, Characters, Figure, Parental

I sympathize with every kitchen porter.

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Sympathize, Every, Porter, Kitchen

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

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Never, Missed, Figure, Father Figure

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.

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Hero, Kind, Very, Superpower

You just have to surround yourself with people who are going to support and love you before trying to sell you as a product, or push you into something you don't want to do.

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Love, Product, Going, Surround

Everyone is slowly catching on to this one - and I know everyone says this - but we need to make a little more effort with the environment. Everyone says they turn off their lights, but do they really?

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Need, Everyone, Catching, Lights

I've just been blessed to work with these really great people.

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Work, Blessed, Been, Great People

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

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Love, Actually, I Love, Documentaries

Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.

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Feet, Dancing, Tap, Engage

I'm very good at meeting people, very outgoing.

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Good, Outgoing, Very, Meeting

Surfing isn't really in my blood. It's hard to catch a big wave in Billingham.

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Big, Surfing, Hard, Catch

I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

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Think, Normal, Been, Normal Life

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

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Myself, Own, My Own, Photographs

We're kind of in a voyeuristic world. We have TV shows that are all about watching people do weird things in houses. People are obsessed with that. There's live coverage of it.

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Obsessed, TV, Coverage, TV Shows

What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood.

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Work, Which, Eastwood, Clint

You don't miss what you never had.

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Never, You, Had, Miss

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