I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.

When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.'

I have a very bad relationship with mice.

You're encouraged to do the same kind of movies. But I would like to keep doing different things.

Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character.

In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.

If you show up in L.A. with your shirt inside out or socks mismatched, people start putting change in your cup.