All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film. Jack Nance
And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker. Olivier Martinez
And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere. Diana Wynne Jones