My soul is in good shape.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.

I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.

My ideal weight is 205, actually.

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.

It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around.

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know.

The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

To act well isn't an easy thing.

I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.

I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.