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.

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

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