Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.

