My heroes were all in the theatre.

I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.