The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute something exactly. You do it away from people and then you present it at the end.

Kids before they're 7 or 8 are like little manic obsessives. They become completely hooked on things and they're slightly crazy.

I did it for the money. But its not worth much if you cant face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency.

The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.

No matter who the character is and how big their role, that each person in the story is a human being and deserves respect. Even if they're in the story for ten seconds, I didn't want you to just see them as this entity passing through that's serving all of the other people.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.