You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.