I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.