I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.

If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.

You want to know what I want? I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.

It's Sir Ben. I've not been a Mister for two years.

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.