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I sort of grew up doing theater. And that's how I got into film, actually.

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.

I don't come from an artistic family, so I didn't know what theater was. I was working on Wall Street in the '90s, and I went to see 'Appointment With a High-Wire Lady' at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and it affected me so deeply. It changed everything I thought about the arts. I quit banking and became an actor.

I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major impact. At first, I wanted to work in the theatre, but there was something about the ambience of film, especially American films, that always attracted me.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.