Balzac, you know, our great Balzac, he wrote interesting things about how in literature you keep distance in order to express great feelings. You have to keep a distance - and it's exactly the same with acting.
When I hear myself, I don't know how I sound.
I never had any barriers coming from my family. Just encouragement.
Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.
But theatre is always a difficult experience.
In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.