In my career, I've had kind of a strange trajectory as an actor. I started out doing movies and theater and stuff, but then I had a terrible problem with stage fright as an actor on stage, and I quit stage acting for a long, long time.

I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her.

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.

It's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star.

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.