Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it's so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.

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.

I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.

The generation now below me were born into a world where if you're a kid with raw talent now, you can roll in and land a lead in a Scorsese film. You don't have to have prove yourself by working up the ranks, doing the classics, and getting the canon under your belt in the way the great Sirs and Dames of mom and dad's generation - the [Ben] Kingsleys and [Helen] Mirrens and [Anthony] Hopkinses and people of that ilk.

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on.

The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.