I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it’s time to worry.
When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can’t lie like that anymore.
I don’t know why, but I like the saxophone.
One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.
One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.
The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you’re overseeing the whole thing. When you’re an actor, you’re just one department.
The worst thing I could be accused of is that I’m a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you’re starting a relationship.
I’m drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don’t believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.
I do get bottled up in interviews. You’re thinking about what you’re saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I’m sullen, or that I don’t have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.
The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.
Of course, if you’re gonna make movies, you gotta make movies, and I’m not gonna say no to a good role.
It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.
I sometimes think love is God’s way of hoodwinking people into having kids. You fall in love, and all that passion goes into procreating and wanting children. I’ve felt that need to want to raise a child. It’s a creative urge. But you can express that creative urge in other ways.
I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it’s hard, first to find good material, and then to change people’s perception of you so they’ll let you do it. I mean, I would really like to play a poet, but once they get this notion of you as a street guy, it’s hard to change that.
It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It’s inevitable that you’re not going to have a so-called normal childhood.
I think a lot of directors, they come out of film school, they don’t know anything about acting. Or they’re writers that don’t know anything about the process. And I think they’re afraid sometimes to talk to actors and be honest with actors.
My driving, I’ve been accused of not being the best, most safest driver.
Love is messy. It’s not something that’s real clean.
It’s a pretty good job being an actor, but it’s work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it’s a job. You’re going to a job.
I don’t hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.