I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.

Well, my mother, she made me apply for a school where I was supposed to learn how to type. She said, well, instead of going to demonstrate she should at least [learn], because, everything was on strike. So we had to learn something in the meantime.

But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach.