I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.

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.

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

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.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.