At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.
For a nanosecond in the pre-Internet pre-digital age, I was a hot young actor, in the sense of popular, and then it passed.
I did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents.
There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.
What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.
I love thrillers, and I always have.
