Utopia means elsewhere.

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

I never wanted to be with someone who just hung around the house.

What you really need to build a character is exactly what you don't have in the movies - time. You know, movies are like a line drawing. You have to make very quick decisions, which are, in the end instinctive. Or you make a decision to say "Well, maybe I can do that, because... Oh, that could be irritating after a while, or distracting, etc. etc." Some of it is a matter of time, always.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. And it's pretty irritating to get a movie on. So to complicate it by having more irritation as a director, I don't really need it. And because I direct a great deal still, but in the theater, I kind of get that anyway. Which is not at all to say I would never do it again, or it would never happen again.

Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

Failure's a natural part of life.