David Oyelowo

David: (on moving to to Los Angeles) ) I'd prefer to live there (the UK), but I'm not one for sitting on my laurels. To do this at the highest level, you have to be here. You think moving to America is going to be a smooth transition because we share a language. But it's an entirely different culture, with entirely different sets of red tape.

David: (his thoughts on the script for Shoot the Messenger) My first thought when I read it was how brave of the BBC to be making this, secondly that this is a real hot potato, thirdly that there are going to be people that dismiss it without seeing it because of the issues it raises, but also that I desperately wanted to be involved.

David: (on his character Joe in Shoot the Messenger) I don't think he's always a particularly sympathetic character and that's what I love about him. He's a human being, a three dimensional human being who at times we like, at times we hate, at times we misunderstand and at times we understand.