Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.

I had no plans to be a director.

In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.