It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

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 very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision

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.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

When I look at a person, or a character, it is in every case the beginning of an endless journey. And I don't suppose I know where that starts. I know that I have to, like every other person, make decisions and have opinions. But I'm real careful to not judge crassly or cheaply someone else's life.