Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the…

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Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have...

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have...

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part...

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part...

Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind...

Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind...

I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.

I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and...

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and...

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you...

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you...

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things...

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things...

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as...

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as...

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against...

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against...

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that...

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that...

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a...

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a...

Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what...

Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what...

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if...

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if...

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or...

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or...

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here...

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here...

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch...

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch...

As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory...

As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory...

It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology...

It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology...