I’m not a big fan of the class system, to be honest. It feels ugly to me. If you’ve got something to say and the work is good, it doesn’t matter where you come from

The Night Manager doesn't exist in the post-Cold war universe, it exists much more in the modern world, I think. There is more action. The bad guys don't have particularly political or national-political affiliations.

I'm grateful for people who have believed in me when others might not have.

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

An ant has no quarrel with a boot.

I never get afraid of things. I only get excited.

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