The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets.

The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.

I've really dreamed of doing television. All of us do television, coming up. But when I was coming up, television was a black hole for actors. Now, television has a certain cache. Now everybody wants to be on TV because they're doing adult dramas. If you're an actor, it's like, "Well, get me on television," because it's the only place you can do it and also make a living at it. If my kids need shoes, I better do a TV show because I damn sure don't make any money with independent films.

Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic.

To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.

Every character I play is me, always has been.