Yeah, I love living in New York, man, and people who live in New York, we wear that fact like a badge right on our sleeve because we know that fact impresses everybody! I was in Vietnam. So what? I live in New York!

Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland.

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

I like to give the actors freedom to take what we have on the page and improve on it. And they do that quite a bit.

I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.

Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.