The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

I'm interested in the spirits of people. In the theatre, there's the acting part of acting - and I'm not saying that can't be great - and there's the essence. To explore that essence, you need a key, a look, a gesture, an insight that unlocks the person's soul.

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

When you get into the edit you'll understand what making a film is. You'll see all the things you missed and all the possibilities you have from what you shot.