I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.
“I was blessed in the sense that I got handed so much early on in life. I got a lot of the things people go through their 20s and 30s craving.”
“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.”