If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.