Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye.

Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.

Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

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