To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.

The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.

If no one on the movie has met me before or knows me, that's the easiest. I don't do a lot of things that don't relate to being the person. I will try to keep it going for my other actors. I want them to do the least amount of pretending as possible.

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I concentrate on what their perspective of the events is. Not even to justify them.

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.