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I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?

The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.

I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.