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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

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I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

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Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.

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

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

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You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

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I'm not a fan of Twitter.

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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

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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.

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I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.

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Be who you like as long as you mean it.

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My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

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Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.

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Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

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For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.

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In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.

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I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

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Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that.

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I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you're discussing things on set so it opens it out to everyone and it becomes a totally collaborative thing. And you have someone who supports you when you're feeling a bit insecure.

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