I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.

In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.

I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.

You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.