Being the youngest makes you long for more of a voice. You find that voice early in theatrics of the kitchen. I was the one screaming, `Hey, where is my food?`.
It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, `Christ, I`ve been sweating and crying for seven years.`
I was in this guy`s office in LA two years ago and he said: `Love your work, Joe, love your work.` I`m thinking, wow, he came all the way to catch me as Christ in Son of Man at the Barbican. I asked what he`d seen me in and he replied: `Nothing` - without...
Well, that`s his journey. I know that I might have only got Shakespeare in Love because someone else turned it down; it`s a very small marketplace. So it would feel weird to say, `Oh, yeah I could have been there on Oscar night`, because the whole chemist...
What`s that Russian saying? `How do you make God Laugh? - Tell him your plans.` It`s kind of true.
