Well, it was interesting because when I was going to do it the first time in my head was Leonardo DiCaprio [for Chris] and Marlon Brando was going to play the character that Hal Holbrook eventually played. But then when it wasn't to be and there was no promise that it ever would be I think some part of me didn't want to attach specifics to it anymore - actors or anything else - because I wanted to see it made that much more badly.

I really love to make movies.

That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

There's the old notion that where there's choice, there's chaos, and where there's no choice, there's clarity. If you've got no choice, you've gotta be there, and you've gotta have your heart in it. It leads to a much less self-conscious life.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.