The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.

Early on - certainly in acting - you really have to take whatever you can get. So I understand well how difficult it can be to be in this position where people are just not hearing what you're trying to say or are saying. I recognize that.

I would always find a way to blow the deal and I'm not sure why. I think there was part of me that wasn't comfortable with monetizing the music and getting involved with royalties and all that kind of stuff.

The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.

There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.

There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work.

I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.