As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it's all faking.

My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.

We all know people for that length of time and people change. They mature. There is a certain expectation that a fictional character does not change. But you can't go back and play him the same way.

It's rare in movies or even in life where somebody owns up to their needs. I guess in a relationship it's the only way it has a chance to survive it.

I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.