If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

I try to preserve a certain amount of time away from the movies, so I don't allow time to do those smaller parts that might give me an opportunity to do more seemingly 'artful' things. Although, having said that, I don't feel any lack of noble purpose if I do a film that's commercial.

What I hate is the loss of anonymity.

People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.

I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.