I hear God as an audible voice.

I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

Whether we like to admit it or not, as artists, we do project our own worldview on to what we do.

Sunday at 11 o'clock is the most segregated hour in America. You have black churches; you have white churches; you have Hispanic churches. It's not really reflective of the world we live in, by and large, in America.

To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance.

One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.