Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?.

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another..

I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you're discussing things o….

I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American..

Macbeth was the first play I ever read..

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots o….

It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message….

Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But someti….

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do thin….

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. I actually want to do this Shakespeare play in New York, but I think it's interesti….

Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the ….

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life….

I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease..

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where t….

He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently..

Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to ….

Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting ….

It's interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That's what I mean. Also, of course, ….

I'm not a fan of Twitter..

Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura..

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me..