One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.