Actually, both parents were actors. My mother was Colleen Dewhurst, who was also a wonderful actress. When you're growing up, they're just your parents. I didn't want to be an actor until I was 20, so they escaped that, or thought they did. |
Am I now going to move on to a 60 million dollar film? I wouldn't know what to do with a 60 million dollar film. It scares me. |
Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it. |
I am a character actor. I'm not a presence actor. And those exist all over the place. |
I don't have a career plan. As I get older, different things become important to me. And frankly, I'm a dad, so it's like how long is it? Where is it? |
I got my start on the stage and there's no question that I keep getting drawn back to material and artists born there. |
I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place. |
I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining. |
I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children. |
I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get. |
I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that. |
I still try out for the bigger films, because they don't know me usually. But to the smaller films, no, they usually know me. |
I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it. |
I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them. |
I went to school in Wisconsin and I used to drive to see Steppenwolf in a basement. |