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

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

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.

Actually I think 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' could sit very very perfectly in the middle of a Disney world I think.

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing.