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

What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.

I am against censorship in any form. I think anybody should be able to make any movie he or she wants and let the public decide. If it's disgusting and they don't want to see it, they won't go. I believe in the audience.

Emotions are the natural result of striving for something. Every single scene has two or more people in it, and nobody wants the same thing, so they are negotiating this one way or another. The result of that negotiation will bring out all kinds of emotional stuff in you.

To a certain extent. I'm a fan of rehearsal on the day [of the shoot], more than getting together a week beforehand.

Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.

When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.