That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.

When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice.

I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.

I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning.

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.