If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

I had in mind a long career.

The Beatles had a six-year career, from 1963 to 1969, which - to me, in my early 20s - seemed like a phenomenally long time.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.