My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.

To have the freedom to be able to make choices is something I guess every actor aspires to. Most actors don't have those kind of choices. If the part comes along, they take it.

As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.

Where were they when the Russians went down?

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

I enjoy directing, but I really like acting more. The idea of controlling the whole thing is not something that really appeals to me as much as being able to just control the world of the character that I'm dealing with.

Actors make choices for different reasons.