My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

I think in art but especially in films people are trying to confirm their own existences.

When we'd suggested doing it the Theatre Royal management had said 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened every single ticket was booked for every single performance and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession education hours worked age marital status and children men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions like nursing dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.