I can't imagine being quite as lucky at any other time - I certainly never have been before. That goes right down from my producing partners to people like Eddie Vedder. But the two things that make me feel that this was meant to be now and not before was that the story itself has more resonance today - I find it a more important story today than it was then - and Emile.

That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.

Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.

When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

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.

Fulfilling what you start is why you start something.