When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long time. It's all good fun. You never know who's gonna survive and who doesn't.

I really wanted to get out of England.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rational behind it.

In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.

When you're at drama school you spend so much time working on amazing texts and analyzing them, digging into them, and figuring out why it happens, why you are being asked to say what you're saying, and what the words mean. But then when you start working, most of the stuff would just fall apart if you subject it to that kind of scrutiny.

I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.