Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

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

I have done films where we all thought the director didn't know what he was doing and it is going to be a gobble gobble turkey. And you go and watch it and it is great.

Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.