'Richard III' is a really difficult play to film - it's involved, often obscure. I felt it absolutely necessary to do more simplification than I've ever done before.

And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days, —
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.

What do I fear? Myself? There’s none else by.
Richard loves Richard; that is, I and I.

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.