I never like to make plans. It's nice to just hang.

You've got to do something, even if it's just to kick-start the day. I use music. And running.

We are what the past has made us. We are what the future will make us. Live now. Right now.

I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans.

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

What le Carré is so good at is unpicking something very specific about Englishness. That is almost part of why I think he wrote the novel. You can feel le Carré's anger that someone who has had the benefits of an English education and an English upbringing is using that privilege to basically do the worst things imaginable. There is an anger in the book about that.

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.