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.

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.

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.

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.

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.