These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore.

If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.

Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

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

Every character I play is me, always has been.

I've really dreamed of doing television. All of us do television, coming up. But when I was coming up, television was a black hole for actors. Now, television has a certain cache. Now everybody wants to be on TV because they're doing adult dramas. If you're an actor, it's like, "Well, get me on television," because it's the only place you can do it and also make a living at it. If my kids need shoes, I better do a TV show because I damn sure don't make any money with independent films.

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.