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.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.