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I don't want to play second leads or third leads in a film. I started working at 17. I still have a long way to go.

There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to work.

As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room - you don't really remember what the alternatives are. The exercise in theater is night after night, you are doing the same play, but you have another opportunity to explore.

Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

Directing film is the hardest thing I have ever done.

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.

I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.