One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.

I have a promptness problem. I am a promptness-free zone.

I'm trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.

I dyed my hair for photo tests... I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again?

When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You're happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director's chair.

I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made a mistake with that assumption. It was really, really hard because you pull a few things apart and then you realise how everything relies on everything else and it can all fall apart.

Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.