I'm Very Glad I'm Not A Politician.

I Certainly Play People On The Edge Quite A Lot. I Am Interested In What Makes People Odd And What Makes Them Different. In Life I Try To Play The Edges. I Have A Horror Of The Herd. There Are Many, Many Different Sorts Of People. A Lot Of People Are Fairly Uninteresting. I Want To Play The Interesting Ones. The Villains Are Always More Interesting To Portray. Shakespeare Knew That.

I'm Very Glad I'm Not A Politician. I Think It's One Step Away From The Gates Of Hell, Being A Politician. I Really Do. It`s A Nightmare.

I Love Being Part Of A Group Who Tells Stories, Whether It Be In The Theater Or In Cinema, And I Love Creating Imaginary Worlds Rather As Children Do, But I Never Had A Burning Desire To Act, But It Just Sort Of Suited Me.

The Work I Prefer To Do Are The Smaller Budget Pictures, Television Can Be Great But It Ties You Up For Quite A Long Time.

I Think Nobody Since Has Written Such Extraordinary Work As Shakespeare Writes. The Characters He Writes Are Full Of Inconsistencies, Which Is A Great Human Quality - I Mean We're All Very Inconsistent In The Way We Behave.