I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.