I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

I'm not picky, quite honestly.

I don’t like to rehearse. And I couldn’t understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor!

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.

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 depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.