I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.