I Think That Most Actors Attempt To

One Of The Greatest Things Drama Can Do, At It's Best, Is To Redefine The Words We Use Every Day Such As Love, Home, Family, Loyalty And Envy. Tragedy Need Not Be A Downer.

If One Is Going To Offer Children Stories That Underneath The Story Must Be Something That Will Inform, Stimulate And Guide, I Love To Be On Board. I Think Anything That Resonates With History, As Does The Jungle Book And Watership Down, Reflects Patterns Of Behavior, Power Struggles, Deprivation, Migration, Survival, Joy, Love, Betrayal, And All Of These Things. It's Tragic That Children Are Encouraged To Ignore History. We Ignore History And Any Literature That Is Historically Based In History. Even Though Both Of Those Films Involved Animals, Of Course They Reflect Human Behavior.

I Think The Actor Has A Tribal Role As The Archetypal Story Teller. I Think There Was A Time When The Storyteller, The Priest, The Healer, Were All One Person In One Body. That Person Used To Weave Stories At Night Around A Small Fire To Keep The Tribe From Being Terrified That Sun Had Gone Down.

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.

When I Choose A Role It's Either Because I Recognise The Man, Or That I'm Very Curious To Know Him. If I Neither Recognise Nor Know Him, Then It Is Better That I Don't Play Him.