''When some films do not pay as well and you have a mortgage to pay and you are on an economy drive eating eggs and beans, and you are offered a million dollar role and you turn it down, as it is not right. I want to be doing this when I am 60 and getting the big paying roles then so I have to pick the parts that are right for the long term rather than take the money now.'' On being picky choosing roles. I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in. "This is kind of my trilogy of madmen. I played the psycho in Cold Mountain, my character in Green Street is fairly psychotic and now I've got this role." On his role in Children of Men.