Let's do it.' We did it, and later on, I got a letter from Steven Spielberg [whose company DreamWorks produced ‘Shrek'] saying, ‘Thank you so much for caring.' It's framed in my house.

And one of the very best has to be Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan ... It turns out that this was the moment when Myers was offered Shrek, which would not hit cinemas until 2001.