My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.

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.

Films take too long. There's too much BS, too much nonsense. If I want to do a play, I just call the theater, whether it's here, or in Paris or Mexico or Spain or London or whatever, and say, "I want to do this, are you interested?" They'll answer the next day. With a movie, it's all, "Oh, I see this film as blah blah blah." They don't know what you're talking about, they don't care.

It never occurred to me to be an actor.

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.