The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to somebody's house and they're making something, they usually say interesting things while they're cooking.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

Too many young actors are strutting about and doing films without having developed some of the depth you need to bring off certain kinds of roles. I think that's the problem with the system, where a lot of younger actors who haven't had a chance to develop suddenly become stars.

In the theater you rehearse in order to do the performance. And in the movies the rehearsal and the performance are kind of the same thing. You're figuring it out and hopefully the camera is pointed at you when you're doing it.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious.