Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.