It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.
You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.