We try to make films for people [that are] the films that we'd like to see. They're not easy to get made. They're hard to get made. You have to keep the budget low to get them made. But at the end of the day, I don't really worry about competition, because I don't really think of it that way. I don't feel like I'm in a race with anybody.

If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

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

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

Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

At the core of every religion is the belief that we care for everyone....It's not too late to help a neighbor in need and to do it with the swiftness, expertise, generosity and love that resides in the best of who we are.