I'd like to direct more operas.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

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'd like to direct more operas.

I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.