The roughest part is showing up. Once you throw yourself into the scene, it's just great fun to let it all go and not be self-conscious, and stop questioning whether you're sufficient.

Making a mistake means overshooting a scene, shooting too many takes, for instance. Long after you've got it, you just keep shooting.

Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.

You have to do whatever you can to limit the things that could make you feel insecure.

We, in America, are so screwed up when it comes to sex. That's all we can see.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.