If you’re in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.

The directors are always sharp. It's true.

As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of.

Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.

I'm not completely against khakis. It's just the level that you have to wear them. The higher you pull them, then more excruciating it is.