People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

I do feel like all the people I meet, all the people I'm in discussions with, if I'm working with somebody, I sense the same energy that everybody is suffering from the same predicament.

To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people don’t understand. It is that exhausting. If you’re doing it well, if you’re concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head... And I don’t think that should get any easier.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

My ideal weight is 205, actually.

When you see the carrot at the end of the stick, what do you do to get it? These kinds of things that come up, that come up in the story of Capote writing "In Cold Blood," and when you see the movie, you'll see what I'm talking about.