I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies….

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee..

What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our l….

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously..

I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a light….

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all ….

The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up..

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. Th….

I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining..

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get..

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst..

I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them..

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhe….

I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it..

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go….

Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about….

I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. Any way to get the word out, I'm just learning ab….

I'm 47, I have gray hair, and yet people still come up to me on the street who are in their twenties, who weren't even born when 'Singles' was made..….

Do what you want I don't care. That's the thing to say to an actor. Most people don't understand that. Not to manipulate them. That's what you say to….

Most of the time for me, you're learning what not to do, as opposed to what to do. You never know what to do. I don't, especially in a work environme….

In one way they make the movie something you can handle because it's character driven and it's slightly off center. That's what's attractive, but it ….