If you ride like lightning, you're gonna crash like thunder.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.

There were the usual types of things that happen, in a production, like logistical bullshit, and this and that and the other. That's the sort of stuff that happened. But I never felt, in a creative sense, that we were ever veering into a place that I hadn't signed on for.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.