Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

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

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.

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

I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

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

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!