My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer may not have thought of, but someone else created the fundamental idea.

At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.

I want to bring theatre to a new generation, using the tools available to us, including taking it out to them on film and with new technology, but that is just so they can discover theatre. I want them to come in and sit in a theatre. This is the way to plant seeds.

I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.

The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.

Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.

I just want it to be better, I just want to be better, but this is very encouraging.