I had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase.

For some reason, I always get offered plays when I'm doing plays and then, if I stop doing them, people stop asking me.

I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.

It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.

Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.

Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars.