The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of nourishment from the theater which you can never get from films. Making films weakens you in some way. With the theater, the work itself is a regenerative process.

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

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

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

It must be hard interviewing actors.