I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

I'm a very proud actor.

I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.