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Why did you want to direct a film about an 87-year-old musician?** I met him at a dinner table, and he was this guy who played concert halls all over the world and then suddenly stopped. So of course that would be interesting to me: What would happen if I had stopped? What did you gain by stopping? Do you miss it? All that stuff fascinated me. **Is abandoning your performing career tempting?** I think there’s a healthy part of anyone who’s a professional actor that has a little Greta Garbo in them. You know, if you want it too bad, you have another set of problems. **Which actors turned directors do you admire?** So many of the best directors I’ve worked with, if they’re not actually actors, they’re secret actors. They love acting. They wanted to be actors. **You say you struggle with stage fright in** **_Seymour_** **. I found that really surprising.** If it surprised you, imagine how I felt. Because when I was younger I had so much confidence, I was never nervous. I didn’t know better. I feel that the great bulk of my life is a war with my nervous system. **You have three girls and one boy, ages 3 to 16\. Has fatherhood changed how you think about your work?** There’s something exciting about having something that I care about more than I care about acting and performing. When I was younger I didn’t have that. Terrible reviews for a play and my whole self-worth went right there with it. Now there’s something that gives ballast to the ship. **In** **_Boyhood_** **, you play a lousy father. And Seymour seems to be a father figure to you. Does that relationship inspire you as an artist?** Yeah. Even \[my novel\] _The Hottest State_ is largely about a young man’s relationship to his father. Looking for mentorship and leadership is a big part of every young man’s life. We want to not be at sea, and we want to not be lost. **Your extracurricular activities open you up to charges of pretentiousness. Does that bother you?** I’ve been accused of being pretentious my whole life, rightfully so. I encourage young people to be pretentious because–if you have a sense of humor about yourself–it means you’re aspiring to something. You have to set goals for yourself, and they might as well be lofty. **You scored successes in scary movies like** **_Sinister_** **and** **_The Purge_** **. Is it strange that some fans see you only in that light?** I never saw a line between high art and low art. One of my favorite moments was when I was doing \[Chekhov’s\] Ivanov in this little 200-seat house in the East Village at the same moment that Sinister was opening. **Is it hard to balance being commercially viable with passion projects?** Most people have to find a way to balance what they really love with what the world will pay them to do, right? My friend Richard Linklater, I don’t think he’s ever compromised. As an actor, I’ve had to find ways to make a living and still be in touch with what I love. **You’ve been nominated for four Oscars. Do you write out a speech?** It always annoys me when people don’t. If you’re nominated, there’s a 1-in-5 chance that you might have to talk. 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