You must find a way to express your ideas and compel your audience to react through the idea itself, and then figuring out what the best representative of that idea may be, and bringing it to life.

I never doubted at all. If you ever doubt then you are in trouble. I never thought: 'I should do this or that in case I don't make it.' I never had a back-up plan.

I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different.

If you wanna compete, youve got to get into the original content game.

Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.