I don't feel one could even remotely touch the idea of intimidating others, but because I've understood the other side of the experience, I will occasionally, if I smell that could even be in the air for a few minutes, say to the director, "Please, you must tell me anything you want. Please say all the things you think might be terribly hurtful like, 'That was boring.'"

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

As soon as someone I don’t respect tells me I can’t do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

I'm basically quite a cheerful person.

Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage that I admire.