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

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

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.

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

As a citizen, you have a duty to ask what is true and what is false.

I wonder what the world would be like if everybody walked their talk; if word was married with deed; promises delivered by action.

People love escapism and there should be a place for it.