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.

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

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

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

My definition of success is control.

I looked at the 1950 animated film [Cinderella], I read a couple of editions of the fairy tale that I have in my house and all of it seemed to say that there was room for a version that delivered, in this story, which seems to invite a feeling in people and I think that is some version of a classical world.

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