I'm naturally shy but I've done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.

I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.

I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.