The action stuff takes a long time but when you're there and you're doing it and you go into that take and you run and everything is blowing up around you and you're diving onto something it's actually incredibly thrilling and you feel like a kid again. Like a kid, who used to play and pretend all those things would happen and now they're actually happening.

Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.

I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.

I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots of master shots.