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People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.


The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.


When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.


I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day.


It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning.


My late wife - she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn't be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn't be able to take care of the kids after.


My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.


You don't want to watch people who are really awful. That's the goal whenever you're playing someone who's a little twisted. One of the important aspects of this is we just don't know who he is. Or who she is. And we find out along the way.


But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.


So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.


Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.


I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.


I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.


I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.


I'm a control freak. Totally.


I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.


I write in the mornings. During my down time.


I would rather just do the things I want to do.


I would love to have my hair back and to be two inches taller - I am 5 ft. 8 in.


I was always attracted to the past as a kid.