The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.

Id never really considered film. If Id thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.

I am aware that I have been incredibly fortunate in my life to work with the people that I have worked with and pursue the projects that I have been able to do. There are so many films that I have done that I really, as a film person, as a film fan, that I like. And that is a nice place to think of a career in.

I remember being very affected by what was going on there towards the end of Apartheid. And the subject is still very pertinent, politically, to what's happening around the world today, in terms of negotiating peace talks. I had always been interested in this period of change in South Africa, generally, for a variety of reasons.

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

I believe people instinctively know that about writing, yet people get confused about that when it comes to acting.