Frankly, I get much more sensitive about what's written about me than how I look in a photo. I'm so used to people seeing my image in plays and films that what they think about how I look is none of my business. If they says, "Hey, he doesn't look good," I'm like, Whatever, because I know I look different from day to day. But if you're up there putting your heart into something and people reject your performance, that's very painful. The written word can kick your ass.

I was a breed of people who aren't capable of doing anything, really. At college I began to get the idea that being macho wasn't the accepted norm in the liberal world, and especially the world I entered into, which was the artistic world. I had a lot of problems with that because I was struggling with the need to be proud of being a man, which wasn't something I was feeling.

You have all the influence you choose to have.

The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.

[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.