You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.