David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character

The art is about opening, it is not about prejudice, it is not about contempt prior to investigation. It's about endlessly trying to keep from having contempt by admitting that you don't know. Even if you know a lot compared to some other people, usually, I think, the honest experience would be: "God, how little I know! And how much I need to have compassion for myself and for other people."

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.

I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.