The environment forces you to be utterly dependent between "action" and "cut" because the environment is perfect on your fellow actor. So as an acting exercise, it's absolutely thrilling that the focus that we had to bring to each other echoed in life, echoed in art. And when you get that parallel, it's really thrilling and it's full of surprises, but it all has a logic.

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.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

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

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.