We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of each other's stones.
I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.
I've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good.
Whether you're a believer or not, I think there's a huge value in understanding the quality of redemption.
When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!
'How do you balance the creative with the biblical?' One could pick up the scripture and read it to oneself and you would be communing directly with that information. As soon as you go into film, as soon as there's a camera, and there's an angle, and there's lighting, and there's editing, you're into the adaptation.
There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.
That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.
If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.
Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed upon you.