My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

My definition of success is control.

I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre

The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro.

I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home.

Artists are social sensors and transmitters of ideas

If Verity's sins were knives, quick and vicious, then Prosperity's were poison. Slow, insidious, but just as deadly.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind...It widens the span of possibilities that you see.

Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.

I get fit taking my bike out in the woods.

Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings.