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

I guess I don't think about age too much. I've always felt older than I really am anyway. I'm not dreading getting older. I don't miss the anxiety of being younger and not knowing what you want or where you’re going.

I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor.

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

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

I never want to feel like the way that I see it isthe only way. Sometimes mistakes happen and that's better than whatyou thought the scene could be. You allow room for the possibilities.

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.