Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.

I don’t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isn’t good, or isn’t useful for natural creative instincts

It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.

Even if people are all from the same place, there can be very, very different approaches. It's one of the things I'm fascinated by. It's why I like directing. I like to see how different people approach trying to be truthful, on camera or in the theater, and whether you can make them match up.

I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre