One doesn't know if one had a happy childhood or not. I don't really know what it means.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.

I'm not a very skeptical person.

My father could be very distancing. My clearest memory is of him squatting, watering plants for hours and hours at a time, completely silent. He was very self-contained; my mother was more outgoing and chatty and social. I'm certainly more like her.

Much of what you do as an actor - it's who's around you, what's the environment, where do you fit into this thing. That's really work that's impossible to do on your own, at least for me. I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'