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What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

Everything happens every night for this audience, and it's a very special occasion to come to the theatre.

I think new plays are vastly more surprising and challenging and inspiring; I hear from audiences all the time that they are delighted when they see plays about the world we live in now, at this moment.

I forgot how scary plays are. The audience is so much a part of the night - I know that a lot of it is trying to shut that out and just do your own thing.

Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love that.

There's a lot of people in the community who are seeing a play for a first time, and that, to me, is really exciting.

What everyone loved about '24' is still there - the clock, the tick, the lean-in factor, the pacing.

I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.

You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'

I've never been one for late nights, which is why I have always preferred making films to theatre. A play takes over your life: you start to feel sick at lunchtime, and by mid-afternoon, you're wishing for a bomb scare so the whole thing will be called off. Of course, if the evening goes well and you get the applause, then it's wonderful.