"I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it." A year later, and I'm average again. Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects. Culturally we've always felt it important to express the life of the country, and working class comes into that. I came out of school in '79 when unemployment was really starting to bite, went back and redid my O-levels, there was a play going on and I was corralled into it. I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.