You [as an actor] have a responsibility to Jonathan's book and you have a responsibility to talk about a subject that is going to be, whether it's contentious or not, it's going t bring up a huge, emotional response from people. A lot of people will say they are ready or they're not ready.

Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them.

At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

There has been one defining production for me in each decade.

I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.