How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!