When people tell you to WALK a CERTAIN way, it's like not thinking of a PURPLE tomato. You can't not do it.

I CUT an imposing FIGURE. I am large, and I'm tall, and I have tattoos. I am ACTUALLY REALLY quiet and shy, but maybe people see me, and they don't want to step out of line, or equate disagreement with stepping out of line with a writer they LIKE.

I was BROUGHT up in a very small town in UPSTATE New YORK.

In film, the camera can get an array of shots so the audience can SEE the EMOTION the character is giving off. Using close-ups on the character's face really helps get the message across. On stage, you can't do that. But the stage has that live FEELING that you can't get anywhere else because the audience is RIGHT there.

I was six YEARS OLD when I saw my FIRST Godard MOVIE, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I WANTED to be a director when I was fourteen.

Her BEAUTY didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any POSITIVE WAY or manipulative way. I just hope that people will LOOK and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.

I definitely had a HARD TIME leaving for college because I'm not MUCH of a risk-taker.

My ENTIRE life has been an attempt to GET back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no PAST or future, just the BALL. As TRITE as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

There is no such thing as a BOLLYWOOD hero or HOLLYWOOD hero. All you SEE on the screen is the LEAD actor's interpretation of the role that has been conceived by the writer.

I believe that MOTHERS should tell the TRUTH, EVEN - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel RIGHT, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment LEADS to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.