I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a plan.

I'm aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn't going to be the filmed record of the play. It's its own separate entity, and I've come to peace with that.

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

I mean there’s a certain finality about a movie, when it’s done it’s done – that raised eyebrow in that moment will always be that raised eyebrow. Whereas a play only lives as a blueprint for a performance on any given night. There’s a reason you can eat popcorn and watch a movie and you can’t do that in the theatre. Theatre you have to lean in, you have to tune your ear to the stage and participateI respond to heat. And blood. And humanity. The cold experience is not for me. I’ve always enjoyed all the real people in a room together in the theatre.