I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing.

I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing.

Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.

I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.

But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.

I think about the period of, like, the '70s and early '80s where nobody had money to make big movies and there was no CGI or anything like that and people had to get super creative. And then, you know, when you've got somebody who can paint you any picture on a computer and you get hundreds of millions of dollars to make a movie, its almost like the creativity diminishes somewhat.

I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status.