I try and shoot as often as I can, I cross shoot. I have at least two cameras rolling at the same time. So I'll have two actors or two sets of actors at a time so everybody's basically on camera. So when they improvise we have everybody's coverage. And you can then go in the editing room and find the energy still stays there.

My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave.

I tried eating vegetarian. I felt like a wimp going into a restaurant. "What do you want to eat sir? Broccoli?" Broccoli's a side dish, folks. Always was, always will be, OK! When they ask me what I want, I say: What do you think I want? This is America. I want a bowl of raw red meat right now.

The second season is generally easier do because you know the actors better and they know the characters better and if everybody likes each other you can really go all types of places.

We drink and we die and continue to drink.

The first movie I saw where it convinced me I could be an actor was 'Mean Streets,' so whenever I see Robert De Niro and he says, 'Hi, Denis,' it's still a really big deal.

It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking or whatever.