People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

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?'

It never occurred to me to be an actor.

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

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

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