I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way on the details that are not at all at the centre of the work.

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

I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

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

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 like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.