I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.

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 quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said 'What play was that?' and he said 'It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.'

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

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

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

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