In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have more control over the story. The audience doesn't care about the platform. They care about the content.
Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.
Theres nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.
Im not revolted by Washington.
Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.
Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.
When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.
The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.
If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.
Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.
Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.
I find drinking really helps.
There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.
Nature's message is clear: we can't keep doing what we're doing now.
We have to start listening to nature now.
Clean, sustainable energy is crucial and cannot wait.
People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's the best analogy I can give." If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah it's the same rules but it's a different game every time you're out on that court.And that's the best analogy I can come up with the theater.
You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster. And it keeps you interested.
I love producing, I love bringing things together.
Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience.
I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.
Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.
I want to bring theatre to a new generation, using the tools available to us, including taking it out to them on film and with new technology, but that is just so they can discover theatre. I want them to come in and sit in a theatre. This is the way to plant seeds.
I've been around politics a long time. I've seen it at its best and its worst, been at so many events, listened to private conversations versus public speaking, understood the game of it, and in many ways the theatrics.
