Films are an art form which are sold after packaging in this commercial world

Awards that ignore me are losers.

There's a personal me, there's an actor me and there's a star me.

I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

The day my father died seemed longer than my entire childhood. The day I felt my first success seemed fleeting, hour-long, not long enough perhaps. I wondered where it went. Even the cycle of time confounds me. I work till dark, until sunrise on most days and fall asleep as the world awakens to light. My friends call me an owl. I like to think of myself as Batman – the prince of darkness.

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.