There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun.

It's a hard job to become president.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.

I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.