I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.