I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.

I'm not picky, quite honestly.

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.