Nothing's really changed for me over the years. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.

I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.