I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.

I feel my life has more meaning because I am responsible for another life, although I don't have control over what Lucian - my son - is going to do. He's definitely going to carve his own way.

Usually, I only get to work a few weeks on a movie, or I often don't make it to the end of the movie because I'm disposed of.

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

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

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.