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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

Theatre is really difficult, so it's important that you have a director that kind of understands that and is really hands on.

As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.

As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

My job, as an actor, is to give the director options. You can only hope that the takes that you thought were the best were chosen. But, then again, if I don't watch it, I'll never know.

You can be playing a line some way and the director wants you to change that, or you can disagree. But I always think that the creative conversation between director and actor is what leads to good work.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.