I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.

Producing is the antidote to acting. Producing is practical problem solving all day long. As opposed to endless self-obsession and navel gazing.

With the movies, you do your preparation on your own. It's much more internalized and ... the actual performance is a kind of, just trying to capture one moment at a time, for the first time.

I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.