I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.

It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.