Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

I would love to play your common, everyday guy, but I never get cast as that.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.