Adults Are Just Children Who Earn Money.

I Don’t Feel In A Kind Of Race Or Competition With Him Or Anybody Else, Because That Kind Of Reactive Thing Isn’t Good, Or Isn’t Useful For Natural Creative Instincts

Frankenstein Feels Like An Ancient Tale, The Kind Of Traditional Story That Appears In Many Other Forms. It Appeals To Something Very Primal, But It's Also About Profound Things, The Very Nature Of Life And Death And Birth - About, Essentially, A Man Who Is Resisting The Most Irresistible Fact Of All, That We Will Be Shuffling Off This Mortal Coil.

I Only Really Cast People Who Are Desperate To Be In It - Who Were Dying To Be In It, Whose Talent I Believed In And Were Dead Ready To Do The Work That Was Necessary.

There Are Some Amazing Stories From All Over This Country, Where People's Work And Contribution Has Been Acknowledged. To Be Part Of That Is An Absolutely Fantastic Feeling.

I Feel More Irish Than English. I Feel Freer Than British, More Visceral, With A Love Of Language. Shot Through With Fire In Some Way. That's Why I Resist Being Appropriated As The Current Repository Of Shakespeare On The Planet. That Would Mean I'm Part Of The English Cultural Elite, And I Am Utterly Ill-fitted To Be.