Rory Kinnear

I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered.

Writing will remain a passion project.

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

I don't like to get in front of people.