There's nothing like a great piece of theater - a great performance in a great piece of theater.

If you cast your supporting cast well, it should be seamless. You shouldn't even notice who's a big part and who's a small part. A good cast enriches everything.

There's nothing like a great piece of theater - a great performance in a great piece of theater.

The camera kind of finds things that the naked eye can't even see. By moving in a certain way, you're already telling part of the story.

I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.

I've got Tom Hiddleston playing Henry V. I don't want to have a bowl haircut. I want him looking good so, you know, I want him in delicious kind of tight fitting leather jackets. [] I don't want him in tights, so he got nice leather trousers in mine.

I never really felt aware of my gender, being a woman, and whether that was in my favor or not. Because there's nothing I can do about that. I'm also really grateful to my parents for having brought me up to feel that equality is just something you take for granted. I hope that our generation will really change that. I think there's a long way to go.