Occupation: Actor Birth: August 25, 1957
As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and he didn't mean just the writing of….
When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician, a degree of energy is required to make ….
I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me..
I can't remember a single year of my life when I haven't made a piece of theatre..
Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time..
I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an actor. I've always loved being with c….
One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a w-r-i-t-e; in other words, ….
Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I make no bon….
We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of ...a much more integrative….
The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the stage and collectivel….
The only way that you can keep moving forward, finding other ways of expressing things about this increasingly complicated world that we live in, is ….
Every time I make, I've made a piece of work, I've wanted to get rid of it, obliterate it and do the next thing, because it was never quite what I wa….
I sometimes feel that I am trying to dig in the world around me. I'm involved in another kind of archaeology to look for another kind of truth, and t….
I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort of from the, from the outside as a director might s….
Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A ….
We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next, next, next. But if you do….
People expect the math to be simplified, but I want to surprise them right from the start. When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It trie….
The more they uncover the more mystery appears to be there..
Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm dire….
I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually see the world..
Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something..