When you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job.

2D looks so flat. Well, it is, of course, it's flat. But 3D isn't. And for an adventure story that takes you into a long-distant, fictional world, it's ideal, I think.

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

There's no sex in Middle Earth.

I'm not experienced enough, or certain enough of my acting on the screen to say to a director, "You are wrong, I am right. I will only do it this way." I could never feel that, I wish I could be absolutely certain. But on the stage, it's different. I know where I am on the stage.

I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.

I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.