If it's good art, it's good.

The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing.

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

Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very primal, but it's also about profound things, the very nature of life and death and birth - about, essentially, a man who is resisting the most irresistible fact of all, that we will be shuffling off this mortal coil.

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

I'm just a foul-mouthed Brit.