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.

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

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

I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.

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.

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

Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.