I suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better.

I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

Nothing's really changed for me over the years. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.That's why you hire them, so why tell somebody first what it is you want? I'm more curious to see what they bring to it and then be inspired by it and say: "OK, what if you tried this?" or "What would happen if ... ?"