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.

In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me.

There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.

I didn't go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am immensely grateful to the journey.

There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

It's Sir Ben. I've not been a Mister for two years.