I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.

I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know where to start.

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything.