A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.

The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody's got to tell the truth, you know what I mean?

There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political.

You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.