I loved Ingrid Bergman. I sat and saw her on the stage in a theater in the round.
I don't think you can ever remake a classic.
I love Tennessee Williams pieces; they are so poetic and I love period pieces.
If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.
Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.
I was trained in classic theater, so I love me some good old crying.
I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
I'm not a big, three-hour-play, Ibsen-revival kind of man.
I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.
I did see - and it really struck me - the late, great Tim Pigott Smith and Michelle Dockery doing 'Pygmalion' at the Old Vic. That was amazing. I remember being rocked to the core by that.
You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.
I come from straight theater.
I can't pretend at how much I object to all of the plays that keep being brought back over and over again, the so-called classic plays. I mean how many times can we see 'The Glass Menagerie?'
