We're all far too afraid of being so arrogant to say "Either you can or you can't."

The truth is rarely true and never simple.

Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual.

Often I don't read novels. The script is more important, that's the springboard to your imagination, really. Peripheral information can be interesting to read but you can't use it when it's not in the script.

The image onscreen takes you forward, it's the driving force of the piece and it's also the information that you're given.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.