There are so many parallels in society today [with era of J. Edgar Hoover ] that you can use, whether it's the head of a studio or the head of an organization, a major newspaper, a major factory or company, of people who stay too long, maybe, and overstay their usefulness.

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

Children teach you that you can still be humbled by life, that you learn something new all the time. That's the secret to life, really: never stop learning. It's the secret to career. I'm still working because I learn something new all the time. It's the secret to relationships. Never think you've got it all.

The cruelty of nature is you have to work out harder when you get older ... It should be the other way around: Work out hard when you're a kid you should be able to coast when you get older. But unfortunately you have to do more to stay in the same position.

It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

I could be the driver - the Uber guy saying, "I used to be in films years ago... ."

I'm not a chick-flick enthusiast.