Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

Even children playing, as frightened as they can get, for the most part, still have a little part of them that doesn't believe it's real, or that flickers in and out.

For me the actor is the centre of the universe that is the set, and the shots are composed to witness performances.

Blackbird has been around since 1999 and I was having shows in it when it was a derelict Victorian.

I always drew when I was very young, it was the thing that came easiest to me.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

Everybody's worst fear that the person they love the most is completely unavailable to them and when they speak, they speak in tongues and you don't know what they're saying and there's no way they'll ever really understand you.

Eventually people either notice what you're doing or they don't.

I don't really rely upon or trust that American media coverage is accurate.