Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.
If you do movies that are modestly budgeted, the way they finance them is they figure out how they can sell them.
One of the difficult things about being an actor is to stick around.
I've never made a movie I wasn't surprised to see.
Obvious things like The Deer Hunter. After that happened, the scripts got better. Opportunities happened.
I don't think I'd be a good director because people would ask me, you know, "What is it? What's going on here? Where should I put the camera?" Or, "What's my motivation?" And I would say, "Do whatever you want!"