This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'

My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back.

I come from the belief that all good films find their time whether it's on opening week or sometime later. That's certainly true with some of my favourite films that might relate to this [The Assassination of Jesse James] film in terms of cadence like Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, or McCabe & Mrs Miller or Days of Heaven. I found them 10 to 20 years after they were made.

Basically when you whittle everything away, I'm a grown man who puts on makeup.