Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.

Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.

I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

I love storytelling. If you strip all the bits away, what you'll find at the center is a storyteller. As I warm to my career and love it more, I have a sense that storytelling is healing, in many ways. You can reach an audience and heal, and by heal, I mean entertain and provoke. It's a wonderful life.