If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of….

Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate..

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck..

The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the way in which….

Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do th….

Theres no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. Its all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experienc….

What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here..

I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove….

What I do is interpret, not create. I may add elements and do something different. That is what is so incredible about theatre. Why do we love it tha….

The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories..

When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better ….

It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished..

I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different..

People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's the best anal….

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances..

It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believ….

I can't judge the characters I play, because it's for the audience to do. What I can try to do is to understand and embody what were they going throu….

To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play to serve the writer and….

When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club..

Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience.

It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young perfor….