Well, It's Wonderful To Be Identified Strongly

Shakespeare Villains Were Extraordinary. Macbeth, Iago, Richard Iii... They're So Richly Layered That A British Actor Would Find It Almost Impossible To Create A Two-dimensional Villain, If He's Explored In His Early Years Or Continues To Explore His Shakespearean Heritage. You Can Almost Not Judge Them, If They're Played Really Well.

I Think The Cinema You Like Has More To Do With Silence, And The Theater You Like Has More To Do With Language.

My Wife And I Have Now Founded Lavender Pictures. If One Has One's Own Company, There Are Very Few Surprises, But There's Still The Actual Thrill Of Trying To Get These Projects Off The Ground. We're Meeting With Some Measure Of Success. Always, Now And At Any Stage Of My Career, I'm Open To Ambush, But There Have Been The Most Extraordinary Set Of Coincidences, Which Continues Through My Journey, And I Find It Thrilling. Often, Out Of Left Field And Quite Randomly, Comes A Project And I Think, "my God, There You Are!" It's Quite Beautiful, Really.

I Try And Reduce Myself To An Almost Blank Slate And Hope To God That I Am Creative.

Fifteen Years Before I Became A Screen Actor, I Was In The Theatre. A Lot Of My Work Was Comedy, Which I Loved Doing. It's Harder.