Raza Jaffrey

It's very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage.

I'm quite handy with a screwdriver. I like making and fixing things.

When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of a show, you're hoping the person you're acting opposite of is going to be on your kind of crazy wavelength.

'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.