If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one, and now they seem sort of meaningful and important.

One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.

I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously, in one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it's not just an attempt at naturalism. It's stylised and it's heightened, to great effect. It's elegant and it's funny and that's the way to my heart, frankly.

When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can't tell you any line from any play I've ever done.