And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.

I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity.

Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.

The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.

All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.