And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.

If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.

Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.

I have had so many bad auditions.

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful.

Years ago I was going to play Chet Baker in another movie and I really felt drawn to that character and the script is good and I met with Robert and we seemed simpatico and we developed. But I had a real passion for that role and that brought me deep into that film 'cause I got the sense that Robert Budreau was going to really let me be creative inside this part.