There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.

I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did.

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do. Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially. I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.