Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.

I have a terrible sense of direction.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.