A film can open hearts and minds that have been closed, for whatever reasons.
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I acted with Albie at Stratford-on-Avon in the 1959 season. We in the acting company tended to hang out at the pub known as the Dirty Duck.
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I didn't plan that there'd be this awful situation in which our European governments, just to start the story off, breaking the Geneva conventions on the protection on the human rights of refugees.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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Politics is about divisions. Wherever you come in on the subject, there are divisions.
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Just being alive, staying human, I think that's infinitely precious.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I got my first film break because the director Karel Reisz saw me at a small theater party.
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The stories of the first refugees that I ever came across in literature - that lots of people ever came across - were in 'The Iliad': the escape of Aeneas with his father on his back, the Trojans, from their burning city, and the defeat of their kingdom and what they had to do to try and find safety.
