I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

The process of doing a play is an organic one and the process of doing a film is totally un-organic.

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

What I do is interpret, not create. I may add elements and do something different. That is what is so incredible about theatre. Why do we love it that there are nine Hamletsor six King Lears over two years? We love to watch a different actor attack the same material.

I just want it to be better, I just want to be better, but this is very encouraging.

I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company.