I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.

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.

As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.

Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see it through to the end.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

You have to really know what you're saying.

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.