When I started, with films like 'The Bay Boy' and 'Stand by Me', I look back on those interviews and I'm amazed; there's no mention of my father; it's not even 'son of Donald Sutherland.' I caught a bit of a break in that it never felt like a weight to me.
There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.
My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of.
Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.
There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.
When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.
I loved '24', but I didn't think anyone else would. I had absolutely no idea.
If you are going to do something potentially for another eight years, you want it to be something that you can really sink your teeth in and that's going to be different and interesting for this next period of time.
I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was going to be the perfect father. Once she was born, it was suddenly, 'Oh, my God! I'm a parent!'
My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.
Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.
My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss.
If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show, we've got a really big problem.
I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.
When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.
I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.
I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?
When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.
The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.
