So Many Actors Are Not Open In

Actual Violence Has No Attraction For Me At All.

Performers Are So Vulnerable. They're Frightened Of Humiliation, Sure Their Work Will Be Crap. I Try To Make An Environment Where It's Warm, Where It's Ok To Fail - A Kind Of Home, I Suppose.

I Don't Belong To Any Clubs, And I Dislike Club Mentality Of Any Kind, Even Feminism - Although I Do Relate To The Purpose And Point Of Feminism. More In The Work Of Older Feminists, Really, Like Germaine Greer.

I Can't Imagine People Telling Me What To Do - I Just Can't Imagine It.

I Took Four Years Off After 'in The Cut' Because I Wanted To See Who I'd Be Without Work. I Even Tried Being A Hermit In The Wilderness In New Zealand. I Stayed In A Warden's Hut Two-and-a-half Hours Off The Routeburn Track Through The Fjords On The South Island. It Was Early Winter, So There Was No Electricity Or Running Water.