It's nice to know that if you've worked really hard at something, it gets recognised with a tick in the success column - however you define that, be it making a bunch of dough, which the actors never see much of, or whether it's a piece that's enlightening or stays with the audience maybe six, seven or even eight or 10 years later.

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in.

I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.