Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.
People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus.
I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they must have seen something then. And even when I was practicing piano eight hours a day, I was still doing school plays.
Some actors play themselves, don't they?
I am the only actor who ever had to lose weight to play Orson Welles.
One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands, and I remember the sound hitting my face. It became my toy.