I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number.
The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

