I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.