I love that country [Israel].

I think the war movie genre is a very important genre in film. Film gives you a visceral experience of something that you would never otherwise experience. To give the audience a real feeling of what maybe a certain kind of warfare would be like I thought was great.

I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know.

I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom.

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.

I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream, it would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.

Southend is a dormitory town for London. But it also had this thing of being the playground of the East End - a glamorous holiday town.