Actor

'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head.

Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema.

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

I really love to make movies.

I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.

I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

I am a limousine liberal.

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.

At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.