My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.
I guess I've never really wanted to be anything else. I've never even thought about having another job.
You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.
The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.
Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
Casting director was a part-time thing, which later became a full-time job because there was a lack of casting directors in our industry and people were looking for professionals to do it.