I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great human quality - I mean we're all very inconsistent in the way we behave.

It's just money; it's made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat.

Making movies can actually be quite boring, there's a lot of sitting around and waiting. Unless you really believe in the story and love the character, and unless you really need the money, I don't see the point in doing it.

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.

I think I'm probably an assassin and not a Templar, but no doubt we're probably run by people with Templar mentalities.

You have to communicate on a much greater scale. With a camera, you can use the flick of an eye. On stage, a lot of other things are happening that can pull focus or energy. You're always thinking the same way, but you have to amplify your thoughts with the volume of your speech and the ways you use your whole body to communicate what you're feeling. It's a little bit different from film.