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What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.

I just liked the feeling of being on stage.

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

For me, to be perfectly honest, the part of my brain that was stimulated by directing was much more exciting than a typical day of acting.

It was a big step, to go from not talking to people to stepping on to a stage. That's when I felt the most comfortable, because I could do anything I wanted to and say anything I wanted to, even if people didn't laugh.

I liked being on stage; I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word primarily, and on screen it's communicated through pictures. So it's always been kind of unnatural to take something that lives on the stage and turn it into moving pictures.

I love the stage - the fact that you only have one take to get it right, the interaction with the audience, and how every show is different even though you're doing the same thing.

The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.