It's a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven't even defined yourself.

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.

From an outsider's perspective, it's amazing what [Clint Eastwood] does. If he's not directing a film, he's acting in it, or rather he's composing the music for that film. His commitment to what he does is astounding for all of us to witness. It's inspiring, actually.

We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we were hand- plucked to do this big budget film. So we were both very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.