My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work.

I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue.

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.

I've been awfully busy, and I haven't gone to many movies.

Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.