Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge.

You can’t really legislate for the decisions that your heart makes.

The 60s had completely changed how people conceived of their lives and their habits and their identities.

What is the best use of my time on this planet?

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.

The character, as written on the page, is just a blueprint for a human being.

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.