The World Motivation
I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive.
“I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive.”
I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive.
I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don't have anything to offer.
I think, as a younger actor, you are more open to the experience. And to an extent, you want to go into things blind and energised as if you were 15. Keep that terror.
David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.
As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.
It's not good if owners of sports teams are talking to sports journalists, bypassing the manager. That goes in the wrong direction wherever it happens. Therefore, I'll refrain from doing this at all.
It's the film journalists that I'm wary of.
Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.
I won this poll thing in England about predictions, and it was all these journalists and reporters trying to say that I was going to be big in '06. My name was at the top of their list. I was like, are you sure you've got the right person?