My Heroes Were All In The Theatre.

No Western Government Has Ever Played The Long-term In Terms Of Foreign Policy.

Acting Can Be A Narrow And Isolated Experience, Because You Only Examine Your Particular Part.

We Are Not Telling Tudor History; We Are Creating ' Wolf Hall ' From Novels, Which Are Already A Rereading Of Tudor History.

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

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.