People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.

I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.

I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.

Hope comes in many forms.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people.