Characters for me are born on page one and they die on page 100.

I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much more of a musical approach: You learn a melody, and then you sing it, I suppose, or you find a rhythm or a cadence that works for the material. And then it's sort of about hitting that note correctly and finding those beats.

I'm not really often recognized - not really. Or if I am, nobody cares enough to come and tell me that they recognize me.

I realized that work doesnt beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.

Fame is one of the potential hazards of this job, but I really just want to make movies. I want to be respected, sure. Who doesnt? But famous-famous? I just dont care about it. And if you genuinely dont give a damn about that stuff, you really are free.

I guess I just would never be so arrogant as to think that anybody would even recognize me. I didn't even think about it.

I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.