Curiously, directing my own films have made me more tolerant and patient. I've always been an extremely impatient actor. Waiting around drove me nuts. But now I'm much more sympathetic to a director's struggle.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact.

God, I just love baseball.

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings a certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.