Today, maturity is a word I associate with spirituality. It's one of those words that cause people to change their voice. When your voice gets higher because of what you're saying, there's a problem. To me, the conflict of life is part of the joy of life. There's got to be a recognition of the friction that exists. Maturity seems somehow about getting careful. I don't want to be careful.

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

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.

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

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

I don't see myself as a different guy than I was ten years ago. I don't have aspirations to be. It's really about where you're putting your energies. That's changing a lot.