I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.

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

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.

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