As a boy I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

When I was a teenager I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

Develop interest in life as you see it in people things literature music - the world is so rich simply throbbing with rich treasures beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests I forget to worry.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

I've always been interested in making movies.

I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky briefly in the '90s and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.

All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.

Everybody gets typecast in movies but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look so you have to fight that. If producers had their way I'd only be in action films but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

I've never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies which I felt there was a lack of.

Besides the fact that I make movies there's nothing interesting about my life at all unfortunately.

Right now if you're interested in being a dramatic actor they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very very involved and interested in art and particularly in animated movies.

Well getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.