Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.

But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling like it.

The great thing about performance capture is you can go off, and then, without changing costume, you can become another character.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

I look back on those early days in the theater like the beginning of a love affair, when you're totally in love with the work, and that's all there is.