Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.

I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.

I've done a lot of period stuff but that's mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff, but it's not any kind of particular choice. That's where a lot of the work is.

Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.