The title is the equivalent of when you become a doctor after years of medical school training... I suppose after years of chewing up the furniture and scenery on stage and in films I get to Sir for being a thespian. |
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that. |
The yellow stars I have worn on three coats in Europe prevented that from happening, |
There are other non-English, Asian, Mexican... many, many directors I'd love to work with of different nationalities because a different national temperament and a different rhythm and a different way of looking at things is enlightening to work with. |
There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance. |
There is a lot of creative energy in me right now. In the work I'm now doing, I know that my soul-my soul-is fully articulate. |
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well. |
There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word. |
There's always a part of me that's migrating. That's so much part of my attempt to portray all these different men. The sense of being displaced from my home, homeland and language is a very real part of my working life. |
There's nothing worse than taking your children to a bad pantomime where they are having more fun on stage than the kids are in the audience. It's insulting, it's demeaning, it's excluding. |
There's probably a young director, male or female, out there somewhere, I don't even know their names, but maybe I'm destined to work with them, and we'll have an extraordinary relationship. I would love to work with Claire Denis because I think she's extraordinary. |
There's so much crap talked about acting. |
To be moved is beautiful. We don't go to the cinema to leave in exactly the same state that we were in when we walked in. We buy our ticket, we pay our seven or eight dollars to be moved. That's honestly what we pay for. |
To offer to our tribe, as storytellers, narratives which are absent of a dark side is a terrible disservice. I'm just fighting for the right for a film to be stirring and brilliant and illuminating. |
Unfortunately I went to a hotel in Krakow, and unfortunately, one night, there was a brawl in the bar because a horrible anti-Semitic remark was made to one of my fellow Israeli actors, one of my fellow actors who was an Israeli, sorry, and we were all extremely upset. I reacted rather violently, I'm afraid. |