Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.

It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.

But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.

Theres nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.