You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years.

You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years.

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.

What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.

If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.