Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook

You mess with my demons….you get the devil!

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

Getting arrested is fun.

We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves

Today, the entire country is an immense University.

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

I'm in love with my job and money comes with that. I do what I can, and in life and in general, you're rewarded for hard work.

You are. I'm just fatalistically cheerful. We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends.