I don't spend a lot of time with anybody.

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.

When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

You tell yourself that you're not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, "Well, I won't get that job. But maybe they'll have another job sometime, and they'll remember that I was good."

I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can't tell you any line from any play I've ever done.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.