I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.

I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.

New York seems to be absolutely filled with brilliant people.

It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.

What I enjoy is a collaboration. Working with other like-minded people. People who have brilliant minds and big hearts.

It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really - and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style.

It's quite an interesting time, the '20s, because the politics of England were changing quite a lot, and the class structure was starting to shift a little.