Rory Stewart

I felt a real sense of catharsis.

I felt a sense of...

In a way that I very rarely do.

Aristotle says you go to the theater and you go through this catharsis and your whole worldview's changed.

I did feel that with that film.

I found it devastating.

I was crying all the time, but I came out the end of it really feeling...

that they had made a really incredible point about.

And one thing you should be able to relate to, I thought, is the extraordinary sense that William Shakespeare, who's the central character, is saying to his wife, yes, our kid has just died, but I'm going back to work in London.

I've got to write my play.

And she's like, no, you effing aren't.

You're not leaving me.

with a dead kid, and all your sympathy is with her.

You think, it doesn't matter what your job is.

Don't abandon your family like this.

And then you have to get to terms with, but on the other hand, his job is being the greatest playwright that's ever lived.

And he's writing the greatest play that's ever lived.

And what the film, I thought, did at the end is balance those two things.

As it were, the tensions of work and life.

I don't know.