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.

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.

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

It must be hard interviewing actors.

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.