A Good Movie Humanizes People.

All That Stuff With The Tabloids Is A Kind Of Luxury Tax I Pay For All The Good Things I Do In My Life.

One Of The Things That's Really Lousy About Making Movies Is That You Have Such Little Interaction With Your Audience.

I Remember Staying Up All Night Waiting To See The First Screening Of Cape Fear Because You Knew That Every Time Robert Deniro Had A Performance It Was Going To Be Revelatory. Then Deniro Hit This Place, He Seemed Like He Was Done With The Emotional Cost Of Impaling Himself Like That, And He Dedicated Himself To Comedy.

My Process Differs... My Process For A Richard Linklater Film Is Very Different Than A Process For Training Day.

Have This Chet Baker Movie Coming Out And In That Situation, I Went Down The Rabbit Hole Studying Chet Baker And Being Obsessed With The Period And The Music And The Relationships And The Dynamic, And Everything, Drug Addiction. There Was So Much I Wanted To Get At To Kind Of Get At The Truth. With Regression, I Was Certainly In Alejandro's [amenabar] Hands.