The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'

I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true." I like those kinds of backgrounds.