Tim Robbins

[on his continued involvement in a music career] Tim: We're going to record a couple of songs, and see how it goes. I'm still feeling my way with being a singer, but then I still feel that way about acting. Every performance is subject to the same challenge to communicate effectively. If you're just doing it for vanity, it's just noise.

Tim Robbins: I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper.

[On if he's looking to direct more films] Tim Robbins: I don't want to do it right now. I don't feel like directing for a while because I want to act. What would happen would be every time I would direct, I'd kind of take myself off the market from acting for two years. And then I'd come back and [be] looking for a job and wonder where it was. I'd have a window of time to do an acting job so my choice was very limited.

[When asked if he works once or twice a year because his family is of primary importance] Tim Robbins: Yes, family is very important. It's also [that] I got into a stage where I don't want to do bad movies. I don't want to work for the sake of working. It's very difficult to know what is a good movie, what's going to be a bad movie, but I try to use my antennae. You find yourself sometimes away from home, working on a movie, and miserable because you're not in love with what you're doing.

[Is getting home early important to him?] Tim Robbins: I think it really is important. I'm trying to inspire that next time I direct. It's one thing for an actor because we do, I personally do one or two movies a year. Most actors up at the higher levels don't worry about if you're working long hours because you're going to be home six months straight or something like that. But it's the crews that work day in and day out. You finish with your movie and they go on for another one. That's a hard existence. That's stuff we fought for years to abolish as far as labor laws go, to get an 8-hour day, to get a situation where it's a decent way to live, where you can see your family, and you don't get home exhausted. These crews work 16, 17-hour days and that's not even the issue. Sometimes they don't even get paid overtime and they go from film to film doing this - and they sometimes do six-day weeks.