Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.
I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.
I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.
'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.
Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.
The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.
I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.
It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.
I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.
You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body.
I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.
I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.
I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.
I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.
Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.
I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.
I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.
I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.
With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.
My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.
I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.
I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.
I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.