I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.
I like to edit; I like to work with other people, and that's something stand-up doesn't really have.
I want to use every tool in the toolbox that's at our disposal to help our economy and put people back to work.
I'm a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I'm doing. I don't want to work for other people forever.
It's like you work with people, and based on the size of the budget, you sometimes can't pay them what they deserve.
I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
I have my belief structure, and it's very important to me, but people start associating that with you, and you become that. I want to be judged for my work.
To be able to work with people who I have respected and admired, to be a part of something like the Cannes Film Festival, is surreal and brilliant.
When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.
I definitely like clothes as much as the next girl, just not to the extent of people who work in the fashion industry.
In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.
Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way.
Many of the most eloquent people I have ever met work in lab coats every day.
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.
In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.
Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.
I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.
When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.
The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one.
