I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.

It's generally more fun playing the villain

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.

It's hard to smoke a pipe, and it's actually kind of brutal. It burns your mouth and your throat, and to keep it lit.

I have too many control issues, so it just is not good for me to go and watch a film, too soon after I make it.

I bought a house, and I've been decorating it