There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey game. Either or, they don't do justice to the media and you end up with a hybrid that is purely sensationalistic. Opera is a very theatrical medium that should be seen on a stage with the musicians in the pit in the audience.

There is quite an important director in Germany who I think in the early fifties over here, and then went back, and he said something that's absolutely true. And it's more important to repeat that today than it ever was. Not for you, but for us over there it is important. He said, 'In America they make movies like art, and sell it like commodities. We make make movies like commodities and sell them like art.'

My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

I’m not really all that familiar with comic book culture.

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

I'm not into weapons. I'm not into cars. I'm not into explosions. I'm scared of all of that.