There's no relationship that I find that's closer than a creative relationship.

Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.

I hate being an actor, they dress you and put on your makeup and you just feel like a little baby.

When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buck teeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

Villains can often be one note and I would say in that case, it’s not fun to play the villain. It’s fun to play the villain if he a) has dimension and b) the villain gets to do all the things in the movie that in life he would get punished for. In the movie, you’re applauded for them if you do them with panache. And so that’s why it’s more fun to play the villain.

There's this phenomenon where people do like to announce movies that they think I'm doing that I'm not.