In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

I suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better.

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

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.

It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.That's why you hire them, so why tell somebody first what it is you want? I'm more curious to see what they bring to it and then be inspired by it and say: "OK, what if you tried this?" or "What would happen if ... ?"

I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.