The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work with ones I know have a strong idea in mind.

These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.