There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.

As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.

I conducted a bunch of interviews for Interview magazine. They actually paid me. I think I was probably 18 or 19. I was in college and I remember feeling, like, "Wow." I had a real job, and they paid me money, and it was exciting.

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

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

I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.