James McAvoy on kissing Angelina Jolie:

"Yeah, I was acting, totally. You know she’s a married woman? Well, she’s not a married woman, but she kind of is and I’m a married guy, so you just get on with it and do your job. And, as usual, it’s the least intimate moment of your day. I was probably more intimate with my make-up artist than I was in this scene with Angelina, actually. That sounds really strange, [laughs] I wasn’t having an affair with my make-up artist. It's technical sort of demands and people watching you and you’re usually more worried about [other things] than enjoying the kiss. You’re more worried about the fact that your breath stinks from the lunch you just had and you had the garlic pasta. You know what I mean? It’s just one of those things. But working with her was cool. She’s a nice lady and, for all of the hype that follows her around, and all of the stories, I’m an actor I should know better, but you still can’t help but be informed by the media about people you’ve never met and you should know better. But she was just completely different than anything I expected. It was nice working with her, she’s a nice woman. I’ve got a lot of respect for her.

McAvoy on whether he can walk down the street without being bothered:

Yeah, totally. You know I get recognized at home a fair wee bit and stuff, but I don’t - quite often when people recognize me they don’t even say anything to me. I wonder if they don’t like my films. Yeah, I get left alone pretty much all of the time. So nothing’s changed too much."

On how he’s perceived by the Hollywood community:

"It’s not that important for me, because it doesn’t - I’m sure it does impact on the work I get to do, actually, but I try not think of that kind of thing. You just hopefully do the best material that’s available to me - so not that important. And, of course, I mean I live in Britain and I’ve never made a film here. I’ve made a film that spent two weeks filming here once, so to move here - I’ve been asked if I’d move here quite a lot - would be decided upon because I’d have to be flying back to Europe all of the time. But no, I don’t really think about it too much."

On the types of films he goes to see in the theater:

"My favorite type of film is not the action film, I’ll be honest, but I do like a really good action movie. When action movies are bad, it can feel like being at the dentist. But when they’re good, they’re really fun. I think the last one that I really really enjoyed was Mission Impossible III because J.J. Abrams just did a great job of making you care and making you feel scared; all that action. It’s really weird isn’t it? You can drop someone off of a building and if you don’t handle it good as a director, you don’t care. But you can film the exact same type of thing, and just by being a good director, he can make you care, make you excited, make you feel scared for the actor. So yeah, I do like the odd action film."

McAvoy on being flattered by the many internet rumors casting him in The Hobbit:

"For people to think that Guillermo Del Toro or Peter Jackson would at all be interested in hiring me is very, very flattering. It would be even more flattering if it was true. Unfortunately, it’s not so. You know, it’s flattering but you can’t give it too much weight, can you?

James McAvoy on how his performance can be manipulated using his cyber scan:

"I’m disgusted by it. There’s a niche film. I don’t think they did too much of it in this film. But at the beginning of the film my character has panic attacks and stuff and actually throughout the film he still has these kind of assassin mode things where his heart beats too fast and for that. I just kind of raised my blood pressure - you know, that thing you can do to make yourself faint by making your face go all red. And so I did all of that and the veins pop out in your head and everybody is very impressed. But then they augmented it by putting an extra vein in my head and making it throb and you’re like, ‘Come on, man. I was doing it anyway and you had to go and over add the pudding.’ But yeah, they have the ability to do stuff like that. They can take tears away, add tears, and stuff like that. That’s quite freaky, too."