 Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen. |
| Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later. |
| Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge. |
| I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled. |
| Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal! |
| Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it! |
| Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency. |
| My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama. |
