If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.

Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.

What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.