Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy.
Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.
I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.
I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.
People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.
You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.
To act well isn't an easy thing.
I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.
The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.
Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.
My soul is in good shape.
Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.
Actors are investigators.
I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.
There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.
Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.
You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.
No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.
Creating something is all about problem-solving.
