I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of that person. That's my pleasure in acting and has been since I was a kid. That's always been my pleasure to create complete characters.

Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.

I’m willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I’m willing to put my life before movies.

You have to remember everything you've created. But then comes a moment when it's all automatic pilot, where it all comes together and you don't have to think about it any more.

I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.

I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.

When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.