My Parents Were Incredibly Inclusive.

Quiet People, People Who Arent Given To Emotional Outbursts, People Who Are Economic With Words - Theyre Also Fun To Play, But You Find Yourself Needing A Laser Precision In Those Roles. Otherwise You Just Sort Of Stand Around, Looking Slightly Brain-dead. You Worry About Being Uninteresting.

You Can't Do Something That Is Morally Vacuous Or Dysfunctional And Then Write It Off Saying, 'it Wasn't My Film, I Was Just Doing A Job In It.'

It's Certainly True That I Was Brought Up In That British Amateur Tradition, The One Which Always Held That If You Were Reasonably Good At Cricket, Knew One Or Two Latin Texts And A Few Zingy Oscar Wilde Quotes For Dinner Parties, You Were Pretty Much Ready To Go And Run Some Outpost In Hindustan.

It's Good To Be Busy On A Film Set Because There Is A Lot Of Sitting Around, So If You've Got Two Roles To Play At One Time, Then That's Great To Do.

Dramatically It's Always More Interesting To Conceal Rather Than Reveal Things.