I'm scared of actors with a scheme.

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

You can't really achieve anything in three years.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.

The more you do it, the more you learn to concentrate, as a child does, incredibly intensively and then you sort of have to relax. I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would in between scenes be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?'

To record something on your iPhone to be watched later, that's like the opposite of theater. The joy of being there is experiencing it with other people. It doesn't translate onto your phone. It's about being present.