I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that.

I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable.

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.

There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16.

My ideal weight is 205, actually.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

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