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.

Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

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

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

You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.

I want to come across as a positive person.