There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.
You have to love the doing of what you're doing and not wait for the phone to ring.
I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.
I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.
When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off.
What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating.
I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.
Before I ever start a job that I'm really excited about, I usually have some sleepless nights or weeks or months. But that anticipation for a person like me... I don't do so well with a lot of time off.
I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.