If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.

Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable.

In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.