There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.

I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.

In the beginning of any career, in every job, people are always forcing you to the middle.

Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.

I cast unusual people in my movies.

My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.

As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.