The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.
I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.
I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.
The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.
Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.
A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.
I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.
I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.