Actor

I'm not a very skeptical person.

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.

The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.

Things are so much global and Americanised.

You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.

I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

Well, I like to have fun at work.

I'm more boring and more conservative.

I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.

Failure's a natural part of life.

As an actor there are no drawbacks.

I believe in humans.

I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can.

Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies.

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.