I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

So far I've done two films that have basically been about television because I know that world.

I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.

Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

I'm not quite sure what the santicity of marriage is.

Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.