I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.