I Can Take Any Empty Space And

Preparing A Character Is The Opposite Of Building-it Is A Demolishing, Removing Brick By Brick Everything In The Actor's Muscles, Ideas And Inhibitions That Stands Between Him And The Part, Until One Day, With A Great Rush Of Air, The Character Invades His Every Pore.

I've Always Worked A Bit Like A Cook In A Big Restaurant, Where You've Got Lots And Lots Of Things Laid Out And You Go And Look Into One Cauldron And You Look Into The Other And You See What's Coming To The Boil.

One View Of Photography Is That It Is A Zen-like Act Which Captures Reality With Its Pants Down - So That The Vital Click Shows The Anatomy Bare. In This, The Photographer Is Invisible But Essential. A Computer Releasing The Shutter Would Always Miss The Special Moment That The Human Sensibility Can Register. For This Work, The Photographer's Instinct Is His Aid, His Personality A Hindrance.

Drama Is Exposure; It Is Confrontation; It Is Contradiction And It Leads To Analysis, Construction, Recognition And Eventually To An Awakening Of Understanding.

I Can Take Any Empty Space And Call It A Bare Stage. A Man Walks Across This Empty Space, Whilst Someone Else Is Watching Him, And This Is All That Is Needed For An Act Of Theatre To Be Engaged.