It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

I only eat things that you don't have to kill.

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.