Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

I cast unusual people in my movies.

Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.

I've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.

Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.