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We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not.

Everybody doesn't get to do each and every film. I don't compete with others; I compete with myself. I have been an athlete, a sportsperson; so I know how to be competitive in a healthy way.

I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.

The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like you. The process of filmmaking is so difficult, there's no point in doing it unless you can do it the way you want.

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

I've never believed in competition. Everyone's here to do their own thing and become successful in that respect.

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

You just have to know what your responsibility is to the movie, and live up to that, and be considerate of the other actors in the scene... I have never been competitive in that way - I always want my leading ladies to be as good as they possibly can be.

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.