I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.
I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.
Every movie that I've had to really knock down the door for has been an enormous success for me. Not just like a financial success but a real personal success.
I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.
Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.
The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.
I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.
In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.
I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. It allows you to really appreciate the hand of the filmmaker.
I like dramas. I've always liked dramas. And I'm a pretty light person. I don't consider myself a very dramatic person. But I do like doing that onscreen.
My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.
I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.
People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.
I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.
You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body.
I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.
I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.
I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.
But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.
But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
