I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.

Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.