Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. Working with good people is always good.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.