On Fifty Shades of Grey's emotional backstory: "The love story is more important Than the BDSM aspect. I mean, we are going to tell a love story, you k**w, it can't just be what happens in the Red Room, that's **t a film. There's so much more going on Than that."
On whether Fifty Shades of Grey is antifeminist: "I can understand why people say tying a woman up and spanking her is misogynistic. But actually, more men are Submissives Than women. Very powerful men. It's a far bigger scene Than I imagined: in pretty much any city in the world that you could name, people want to get spanked with a paddle with studs on it."
On becoming an actor despite the paparazzi aspect: "You don't do it to have some guy sitting in a f*cking bush outside your house with a camera. That's **t why you do it. I just couldn't do an ****** job; I don't have that temperament. But yeah, I don't k**w how you can prepare for it. You can't get in sandbags. Buy loads of hoodies and caps? I'll deal with it when it comes. I feel pretty secure about who I am. It's **t my first time at the rodeo."
On being a dad to his 2-year-old daughter with wife Amelia Warner: "I've had to be away the last couple of weekends, and I come back and I barely recognize her, and it's awful; she changes so much. And then I have this huge fear that she won't recognize me. The beard helps, but I had to shave it off a couple of times, so she's been shocked for the first few hours. She looks at me like: 'Do I love you? I think I love you.' I have to win back her trust."