My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it's moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I'm probably the trombone.

Dreams cost nothing. They are free. The hard part is just keeping them going.

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

Don't discuss your dreams. Pursue them!

Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes.

I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.