Obvious things like The Deer Hunter. After that happened, the scripts got better. Opportunities happened.

I like to be cast well and then I like to be left alone. And good directors, that's generally what they do when they hire you because you have something that's useful to the part, and then they leave you alone. The times that I've run into trouble is when, very rare actually, but you get hired and then there's some sort of makeover involved.

I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

I think all men when they get older, they look at the mirror and they probably see their father a little bit.

I want to make movies on a soundstage. They close the door and it's nighttime, daytime. If it has to rain, they make the rain. That's what I like.