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.

With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.

I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

I suppose that's my one little secret, the secret of my success.