I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.

When I did Sean Penn’s movie, I think I was living in, like, a $500-a-month room, and someone called me up or bumped into me and asked me if I’d come up to work for a day. That sort of got me going a little bit. But it wasn’t until Sin City [2005] that I kind of got back into the game.

I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.

I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.

My dogs are more important than my family.