You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.

American audiences are affected by what the English people think.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

Looking back doesn't have to be painful.

I have always loved a challenge.