I've done quite a few big American films.
It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.
There's a reason screens are only this thick.
I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.
I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.
I still have a temper, I suppose.
I never really did a western western.
I'm not a very skeptical person.
It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.
I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.
I don't think my parents know what I do.
I don't mind what I play, really.
It never occurred to me to be an actor.
My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.
Reviews are destructive by their very nature.
There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.
To a certain extent in Hollywood you're a product, and your product is whatever sells the most, and whatever sells the most is whatever the public likes to see you do - if anything.
