A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?'

It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

Maybe with "Californication" the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad boy novelist.

I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.

I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.