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.

I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

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

My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.