My main memories of my father are of his illness.

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father...

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

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

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.