I like working, and I like the freedom where all that matters is my work.
No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.
I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.
I feel very lucky that I have this career that allows me to say, 'I'm ready to start now on this project,' and I can go and do it.
I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions.
I do often feel that the single greatest thing about my job is that I don't have a boss. I'm like an overweight Han Solo: I take orders from just one person - me.
Irrespective of what people think I should do, I choose the kind of film I want to do next. I believe it's always about things falling in place at the right time.
I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.
To have been able to do this for so long and to not have to work a regular job is a thrill.
