My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

Definitely, there's a lot of trouble you come up against when you're acting and directing, about your performance. Sometimes it's hard to be objective about it. I will tend to get two takes and walk away. I don't belabor it, and it's important to me to have someone who says, "You know what? You should get another one, and maybe you should try it like that".

I don't need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.