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.
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.
Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.
Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.
I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.
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.
Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.
'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.
The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.
Casting is a long process for me. I take a lot of time.
I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.
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.
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 like dramas. I've always liked dramas. And I'm a pretty light person. I don't consider myself a very dramatic person. But I do like doing that onscreen.
I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.
I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.
If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.
I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.
'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.
I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.
