I dont have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.

Whatever character you're playing you have to complete the entire interior infrastructure, whatever it is - but what gets divulged or what people completely understand depends on the script and what you decide to show. But you have to know it.

Violence doesn't seem to bother people anymore - they're inured to it. And I think it has a lot to do with the violence in movies and video games - it doesn't bother people as much. I'm not so sure it evokes a reaction anymore.

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

My method seems to change to everything, especially when you get older. You have more of a resonance to be able to grab to. When you're younger, you have these big boundaries because you don't know how to get you to where you are. When you get older, you have a few tricks that you can pull off.

It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.