I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.
One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
I am a film buff.
Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.
Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.
The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.
I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.
The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it.
My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.
I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!
The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.