I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.

My parents were incredibly inclusive.