Being Out Of Work For 13 To

People Ask Me About That All The Time. They Say, "did You Ever Think Of Directing?" And I Say, "it's Completely Out Of The Question."

Years Ago I Realized That Maybe I Made Mistake, Politically, When I Turned A Lot Of That Stuff Down. I Would Go Off To Obscure Places And Make Movies That Six People Went To See.

It's Always Been The Case That You Have The Really Rich, And The Really Poor. But Hey, Look, All The Great Empires Have Their Periods Where They Rule The World, And Then They Crumble.

When I Did Sean Penn’s Movie, I Think I Was Living In, Like, A $500-a-month Room, And Someone Called Me Up Or Bumped Into Me And Asked Me If I’d Come Up To Work For A Day. That Sort Of Got Me Going A Little Bit. But It Wasn’t Until Sin City [2005] That I Kind Of Got Back Into The Game.

I Was Very Ashamed Of Seeing A Therapist Because I Thought Only Crazy People Went, And Then, After About Nine Years, I Asked Him, 'well, Was I Really Crazy?' And He Nodded And Said, 'you Were But Not Any More.'