Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire, read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they're not used to? Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.