I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.
He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel.
Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed.
I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.
I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.
But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second.
The title of the movie is open to interpretation.
Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.
I would say 95% of the time, because you just can't remember your lines if you're drinking alcohol. I would say about 95% of the time it was grape juice or this fake wine, which was horrible.
But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will traverse all demographic barriers if people embrace it as a funny movie.
It's one of those scenarios where no, I never imagined that I'd be directed in a love scene - not even a love scene because it's kind of a hard-core sex scene because it's kind of just purely played for this carnal venting.
I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.
I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie.
But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.
And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.
I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.
But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.
But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando - perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all.
To some extent I could identify with that because I kind of just made my money and got out.
Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.
