Everyone wants to learn something; maybe not everyone makes the effort,
because they get discouraged. I certainly was like that as a teenager
in Brooklyn, always trying to hide my ignorance. But you have to find
the strength to acknowledge that ignorance within yourself, otherwise
you are going to remain stagnant. I learnt a valuable lesson with
Ridley Scott. My agent kept insisting that I go watch the
show-reel of this commercial director and I kept turning him down,
thinking there was no way that I was even going to consider working
with a commercial director. In the end I saw his reel and I was blown
away by how great it was.
