Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

That's the most stupid expression in the world. 'I fell in love'—as if you had no choice. There's a moment, there's always a moment; I can do this, I can give in to this or I can resist it. I don't know when your moment was but I bet there was one.

I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.