I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies.

Well, there's two things I have criteria for doing a film: The script, which is the story, and the filmmaker, and it's a filmmaker's medium. I like really strong directors, and so when I do a film, I'm out there to serve the director, really, which is in turn to serve the script, to serve the director cause he's the one making the film. I relied on Todd Haynes for that.

I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked.

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.

You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart.

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.