The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

I would bring the government back to what it was intended to be - a plain economical government.

You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.

If somebody says, 'I am a gay person, and I want to get married,' is their own family going to deny them that? Are our own fellow citizens going to deny them that?

The thing is that when you make a film, it is such an intense experience. It's like being married.

We really need to come behind and press for marriage equality in Northern Ireland.