My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.
I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don't see them as chess pieces.
I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.
My characters are all made up of pieces of people I have known, their backstories pieces of mine.
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?
I never act my characters - I am them.
Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.