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I feel that once you go into rehearsal, you need to focus on the show in the room.

I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.

I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.

When you're young and starting out, the big hurdle is to relax enough in rehearsal so that you don't feel intimidated. The more work you've done, the more you can experiment in rehearsal and not have to worry about getting the sack.

When you're in a rehearsal room, it's like getting into a car and going on a long journey with everyone's stuff in the back. If you keep stopping the car and going, 'Are you sure we want to go?' and think, 'This is really daunting,' you will get frightened, so you just have to keep ploughing through it.

It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.

I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.

In general, I don't even have the luxury of rehearsal time on most films that I make. It is just a scene-by-scene full cast read through. It's very much just doing the rehearsal sometimes the day before, at the end of the day, but just on the spot as the scene unfolds.

The excitement of being in a rehearsal room is good for me.

I think, for different types of things, more rehearsal is very important.