Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

God knows, I haven't always been successful.

I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.

I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into middle age! - you come to a time where you really question more and more frequently, whether you have anything else to offer. And at its worst, you feel utterly bereft of whatever creative force it takes to do that work.

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.