I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

I don't have a burning desire to act strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

Interestingly, when you do films, sometimes you have conscious reasons, things that you were looking for, or stuff that you were trying to do. And then, you see the film and you think, "Wow, it ended up being something totally different!"

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic, in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.