I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there.

The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women.