A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.

If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.

I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.