I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me. It doesn't anymore. I don't have to fit into that category and get trounced by Tom Cruise and Brad.

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.

At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.

Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So to make money in the summer we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.

Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.