It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.
John HurtI do what interests me when I'm invited and do it as well as I know how and try to get better. That's all.
John HurtI've never done a [Berthold] Brecht. In the 1960s when the Berliner Ensemble came over [to England] with Helene Weigel [Brecht's second wife], I saw all the Berlin actors. It was an amazing time, very exciting early 1960s.
John HurtI thought ['Sailcloth'] was a terrific script. Elfar Adalsteins, the director, is bound to be a director we'll hear from, and the whole thing was really enjoyable.
John Hurt