Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.

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.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

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.

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

The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.