As an actor, it's always been good to be working at all.

Being movie director you've got the art department, you've got the actors, you've got the camera department, you've got make-up and hair, and props. You've got your finger in all these pies, and you're making sure that everything cooks at the right temperature.

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough'. That became my mantra.

There's no point thinking, 'Well, my life's certainly worked out, I've got all the answers.' It would be wrong for me to say that I don't get seduced by certain things. That things don't become tempting.

It's a difficult thing as an actor not to repeat one's self.

I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.

At one point you think, well, it's funny, I could just be a starving actor... So if somebody were to pull the plug right now, there'd be no room for complaint.