I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different.

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.

The control is shifting because of the democratisation of the internet. My industry is very good at building walls to stop people getting in.

If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.

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

I can't judge the characters I play, because it's for the audience to do. What I can try to do is to understand and embody what were they going through? How did they make the decisions they made? That to me is a more interesting way to approach something, rather than saying this person is a villain and that person is this and - because it's not very interesting to play that anyway.

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.