There's so much crap talked about acting.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

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.

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

I've met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.