I don't normally watch films I'm in because I'm squeamish about that and it takes me quite a long time to recover and I have to go to work. I'm not being coy or cute, but it's just true.

It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.

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 did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.

I'm just aware of what I'm thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium. So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines - technical things which are important, but I don't think they change the way I feel in a scene.

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It's fabulous.