It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.