I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

You take advantage of your position as a famous actor to meet women.

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do.

I put out a lot of different kinds of material, and maybe people read that as egotistical. Or maybe, since a lot of it does involve some aspect of me, they find it self-aggrandizing. But there’s a long tradition of artists using themselves. Look, I know I’m not perfect. And, who knows, maybe a part of it has to do with self-obsession. But it’s also about using this weird thing that is a public persona as raw material for creative projects.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.