But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

It's nice being offered a lot of interesting films and being asked to take part in things that are quite curious. If you hunt and keep looking, there are some wonderful things that come out.

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.

Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.