If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or three times in your life, you're going to end up doing a Shakespeare, because he's obviously such a brilliant, brilliant writer.

Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it.

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or three times in your life, you're going to end up doing a Shakespeare, because he's obviously such a brilliant, brilliant writer.

It's very important to make the man believable so that you can stretch the fantasy. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question.

If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.

It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories, anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun too!