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.

When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.

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

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'

When you are in something that you're proud of and it's funny and it's a good night out and all of those things, there's nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.

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.