I Can't Go Into A Bar Anywhere

I Guess There Are Different Ways To Handle Success. You Can Multiply It Financially And Use It To Multiply Your Net Worth. That's Always Been Very Appealing To Me.

What Really Matters Is The Work. And What Matters To Me Is Doing The Work. I'm Not Looking At The Back End: "what Am I Going To Get Out Of This? What's Going To Be The Reward?" I'm Just Looking At The Work, The Pleasure Of Being Able To Do The Work. And That's What The Fun Is: To Climb Up The Mountain Is The Fun, Not Standing At The Top. There's Nowhere To Go. But Climbing Up, That Struggle, That To Me Is Where The Fun Is. That To Me Is The Thrill. But Once That's Over, That's Kind Of It. I Don't Look Too Much Beyond That.

I Had Just Arrived In New York From California. I Was Nineteen Years Old And Excited Beyond Belief. I Was An Art Student And An Acting Student And Behaved As Most Young Actors Did - Meaning That There Was No Such Thing As A Good Actor, 'cause You Yourself Hadn't Shown Up Yet.

There's A Lot Of Hyperventilation That Takes Off Before The [sundance Film] Festival, A Lot Of Buzz. Every Year We Hear, This Is Going To Be The New This, This Is Going To Be The New That, And It Never Is. The Buzz Just Doesn't Mean Anything. I'm Glad It Doesn't. Because I Think The Festival Shows That What Succeeds Is Content.

If You Want To Slice Into America, It's Pretty Red, White, And Blue In Terms Of How It Goes About Things, But There's A Gray Area There, And I've Always Been Interested In Where Things Are Complicated.