When I Was About Fifteen, I Went

Curiously, Directing My Own Films Have Made Me More Tolerant And Patient. I've Always Been An Extremely Impatient Actor. Waiting Around Drove Me Nuts. But Now I'm Much More Sympathetic To A Director's Struggle.

All Of The Films That I've Made Are About The Country I Live In And Grew Up In... And I Think If You're Going To Put An Artist's Eye To It, You're Going To Put A Critical Eye To It. I've Always Been Interested In The Gray Area That Exists Between The Black And White, Or The Red And Blue, And That's Where Complexity Lies.

When People Start Thinking Of You More As A Persona, They Are Less Inclined To Allow You To Move Into Different Areas. Sometimes They're Wrong. Sometimes They're Just Very Stereotypical Or Restricted In Their Own Thinking Of What They'll Allow You To Do.

I Started As An Actor In The Theater Playing A Lot Of Character Parts, And Suddenly, I Found Myself In This Place Where It Felt Like I Was Getting Locked Into A Kind Of A Stereotype, And It Did Bother Me.

I Can't Go Into A Bar Anywhere Without Someone Starting To Play 'the Entertainer'.