For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

When you love something, it never goes away.

My father is so jolly, and I live a really happy life. I think that's why all my interest in the darker things in films comes up: because I'm curious about things I don't live in.

Writing was my companion and stories were my companion when I was bedridden and didn't think I was going to walk again and all of that treacherous stuff. And stories are how you can comfort a child. It's certainly how I comforted my daughter, in good and bad times.

I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

('Eraserhead') may seem like a dark film, but my father and I watch it, and all we do is laugh. It was Disneyland everyday on the set. That's when I fell in love with film.