I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

Writer-directors are a little bit more liberal, rather than having just the writer on the set, because I think sometimes the writer becomes too precious with the words. If you're a writer-director, you can see what you're doing and see your work in action, so I think you can correct it right there and still not compromise yourself.

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.