I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.

I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.

I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. And it's pretty irritating to get a movie on. So to complicate it by having more irritation as a director, I don't really need it. And because I direct a great deal still, but in the theater, I kind of get that anyway. Which is not at all to say I would never do it again, or it would never happen again.

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.