You have to really know what you're saying.

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you move onto another one. As a director, it's with you for quite some time and you're responsible for the entire thing, whether the results are good or bad, or whether people throw darts at you or put you on a pedestal.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me.

Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

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.