His meddling into editing American History X is one.
Didn't do the film any harm 😛 Every actor has his crap movies Queeq, he might have been in Red Dragon, and The Illusionist, but also around that time he had films like Down in the Valley(not amazing, but he was fantastic in it) and The Painted Veil.
I'm also looking forwards to him in Motherless Brooklyn playing a character with Tourettes, that should be good. Books decent. Also Pride and Glory looks rather good.
I don't find him pretentious at all.