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.

Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

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.

OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.

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