My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

But you need to strive to try and communicate and try and change things in a similar way. And then people can think that's pretentious or whatever, but it's your life's work, and you've decided that. That's what they made us believe. So we have a pretty high standard, which is at times great and at times not.

Sometimes you need an anchor, whatever it might be. You need a space to connect. So often you get into a way of doing things.

Hardest emotion? They're all pretty damn hard; I don't know really if there's one specifically, but I do think, I don't know what's happening or what I'm feeling when I'm actually listening.

I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.

Peter Sarsgaard, he's an extraordinary actor, and I would say that Peter has really brought into my life and my sister's life a sense of presence as an actor that I never really understood or knew about until I met him. They've been together for a very long time, and he introduced me to the idea of the presentation.

In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies.