Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.

It's a foreground of my feeling. That place moves me. And I don't mean my country; it's part of our shared natural world that happens to be particular to a sense of wherever my storytelling inclinations come from and my own history of kind of being a road rat and travelling.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.