I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
“Like most of the world's population I'm into coffee, but in a properly big and important way. My perfect weekend would start with a pint of coffee.”
“I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.”