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

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

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

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.

My father could be very distancing. My clearest memory is of him squatting, watering plants for hours and hours at a time, completely silent. He was very self-contained; my mother was more outgoing and chatty and social. I'm certainly more like her.

When I have failed as an actor I've always thought it was my fault. But when I direct something, I wouldn't want the actors to think it was their fault.