I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.

The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they're foreigners or different from us.

For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.

I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was a reality for me growing up; it wasn't a fantasy. It wasn't sitting there going, "I want to be adored." It wasn't that at all. Not to say that the screams of fans aren't a smile-raiser, but that was never the pull for me.

I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.

We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.

I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.