I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.

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.

I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.

I generally do things I'm proud to be in and generally I'm in things people like.

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

It's more than usually possible that I won't do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language. I was lucky enough to be a part of it at one point in its life, and it's a timely thing to deliver it again in the modern world.

I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.