However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with someone who's been an actor.

I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your face, happy stuff is being sold to you.

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

I do think I'm a character actor.

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.

I think the dictator director is based upon stories from the past. I don't think anyone would put up with it now. There are a lot of people on a film set with egos. So, to be completely authoritarian, you'd probably have to have a reputation like Kurosowa or somebody to get away with it.

What infuriates me is that in America violence is judged in context, whereas language is not. So with language there is an arithmetic that says: one f*** is a PG 13, two f***s is an R. They don't say: one bullet through one head is a PG 13, two bullets through more than two heads is an R.