I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.

Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.

I seem to play a lot of losers.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

When I was really young, I shot a lot with my Super 8.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

You work side is for everybody. When you're at home, you're not wearing heels and your work attire.

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

Eat together and not separately, for the blessing is associated with the company.

The hardest thing about moving to California from Connecticut was just missing my family. If I went back, it would be just because I was homesick.

He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.

Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive

If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world