The audience, that's who I care about.

After you've done 60-something movies, you're always looking for something different.

If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was terribly romantic, everyone would cry and they'd win awards. But in real life if someone does that they'd be considered weird.

I figured I would have to tell someone to kiss my ass before it was all over, and I have -- twice.

I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.

I always wanted to play a lawyer.