I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

What we have is the here and now, and what we have is each other, and let's find a way to deal truthfully with each other.

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.