I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

I have a dresser, who literally is a guy who makes sure the tie is right. It's a little bit of a process. I could probably do it by myself, but it would take me three times as long.

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 ... ?"

What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous.

I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.

Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.