I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

An actor has to embody a role.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.