Judi Dench

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.