Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.

You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.