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I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.

When I cast great actors, I try to make extraordinary people ordinary, dealing with these extremely small intimate details of interpersonal relationships against an epic backdrop.

I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.

I'm an actor and this is a role I'm playing. But people can get wacky.

I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places.

When I was coming up with the Hal Hartley films, I was cast as a no one. I had no name visibility. I was working at a downtown post-performance-art, avant garde theater company and doing a couple things on television. But I was a total unknown.

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.