All We Want Is To Be Treated

I Love Texas. Even If I Am A Little Bit Famous Or A Little Bit Popular... You Go To Places Where You're Not And Just Live Like Everybody Else Lives. I'm Not Crazy About This Country In Terms Of The Shape It's In, But I Do Think There Are Lots Of Great Pieces To Go To. I Think I Should Take Advantage Of It While This Country Still Exists.

I Think It's Really Important To Have A Life And Have Interests Outside Of This [movie] Business, And Not Rely On This Business To Validate You As A Human Being. If You Do That, You're Really In A Dangerous Spot.

I'm A Really Private Person. I Just Love My Work. I Feel Like Celebrity Has Changed So Much, In This Culture. Ever Since They Started With Those Reality Shows And People That Aren't Actors But They're Really Famous, It's Gotten Very Different From When I Started Out. So, The Idea Of Ever Becoming More Than What I Had Is Not Really What I Want.

When I Was Young, I Was Really, Really Obsessed With Gena Rowlands And John Cassavetes. Because My Mom Was A Projectionist In College, She Was Somehow Able To Get A Real Projector. And She Had Some Connections, So She Would Get Real Prints, And We'd Put Up A Sheet. The First Movies I Saw Were To Kill A Mockingbird [1962], Gigi [1958], A Woman Under The Influence [1974]. Then When I Was Old Enough To Be Able To Rent Movies, I Went Through A Very Big Cassavetes Phase.

You Look At People Like Gena Rowlands, But She Had [john] Cassavetes To Write These Amazing Roles For Her.