One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

You want to know what I want? I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.

The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.

I never went to drama school. I went straight into the theater. We had the most extraordinary voice teacher. I worked with her when I was starting out in my career. How to place my voice from a very relaxed position was all wonderfully reminiscent of going back to the basics. But I always like to do that with any role that I do, to dismantle it and put it all back together again.

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

You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.

Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.