In Shakespeare, Keep It Simple. Don't Over-inflect.

There's A Challenge To Playing These Fantasy Figures Because They Are Fantasy Figures. You Have To Enter Into This Sort Of Imaginative World Of The Writer.

The Tensions Between Authority And The People Need To Be Heard, Especially When They Are Suffering And They Can't Eat.

Being An Actor Means Asking People To Look At You. I Guess I Accept That. But It's A Profession In Which The Job Is To Show Another World And Other People. You May Access It Through Bits Of Yourself, And Your Imagination And Experience, But Actually, In The End, You're Not Playing Yourself.

I Certainly Gained A Lot By Reading About Shanghai.

Most Films Are Rooted In A Book Or A Comic Strip, But I Don't Go Out There Saying I Want To Do Adaptations.