My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

I avoided nudity unless a film couldnt be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.

I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.

It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.