The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre

I guess I've done a couple of boys-y movies and on the whole you get bracketed into things you've just done, so it was an imaginative surprise from my Disney family to pull me out of the hat, as it were in Cinderella.

Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness.

I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me

I've heard from quite a few people, you sense that there is an ownership of the [ Cinderella], it was so personal for so many people, so I was interested in trying to work out why that was.

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.