When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

I'd like to direct more operas.

I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.

To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.

Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.