Growing up as a Brit, Arthur and Merlin and Camelot, and just the idea of it, is embedded in the culture and in your soul, growing up. King Arthur is alongside Robin Hood, as those great British folk tales, myths and icons.

If ever there was a character that was never defined by gender, it's the Doctor. The Doctor is gender fluid in that sense.

I have no issue with my boys looking up to women.

Broadchurch' has always been about the impact of crime, on all those affected.

In this life, we are in a constant search for inner peace. We long for it in all aspects of our lives, both personally and professionally. The truth is that we cannot have inner peace without balance. It seems that having too much or too little of anything completely throws off our balance, therefore limiting our inner peace.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Life is full of awe and grace and truth, mystery and wonder. I live in that atmosphere.

Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it's not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns.