Nobody Wants To Watch Perfection.

I Don't Want You To Think That I'm Up Late Reading A Stack Of Spider-man Comics And Eating A Tray Of Lemon Cookies While Sucking My Thumb. I'm Not Doing That. But I Am Loyal To The Influences Of My Childhood.

Film Has Lost Something In The Translation To High Tech. It's Become So Super-real. It's With Digital This And Stereo That, And Everything's Like A Cd.

God Bless My Father, But He Always Spoke In This Continental, Literary Accent, Probably Because He Was A Professor Of Comparative Literature And He Made The Decision To Speak With Distinction.

The Most Meaningful Movies I Can Make Are The Ones Where Parents Can Share Them With Their Children And Children Can Look Forward To Sharing Them With Their Parents, A Ritual If You Will, Where They Get To Spend Time Together And The Kids Are Smiling.

Hollywood Didn't Know If I Was An Actor Or A Nut Or If I Was This Crazy Character I Was Playing. I Had Developed An Image Of Being A Little Bit Unusual, Different And Wild.