Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.

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.

You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.

I probably write a poem every 50 years.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.