As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.

I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.

People would love to be rich, but they're looking for the easy way. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Just to score.

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

Let me demonstrate. When you greet a friend this is the duration of the kiss that's acceptable. "Hi, good to see you - yeah." When you make a mistake and stay too long at the lips, this is how long it is. "Hi, how are you? Good to see you." And that's what happened. It was like, "Uh-oh, what was that? Oh."