Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?
And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.
As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.
Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
The next day I was in my school's production of All My Sons. This was the performance where I realized something was happening between me and the audience that I hadn't recognized before.
I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.
But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.
I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.
I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.
I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.
I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.
I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.
I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.