When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage.

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'

That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

Film just chews up actors like nobody's business, and I'm not particularly interested in being chewed up. I think the camera can only look at somebody's face for so long. I guess you have to accept the roles you think are right at the time. You can build a career, but these days there doesn't seem to be that much interest in people being actors.