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

When I was coming up, if you were on a TV show, that meant something was wrong with your career. Now it means something's right with your career.

Marketing is the devil.

We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.

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.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.