Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

Learn to say, “I don’t know the answer.” It could be the beginning of a very good day’s rehearsal.

One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.

If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.