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

The secret of directing is working with really good people.

You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

I've been my most happy and my most unhappy in relationships. I have family and friends and people I care very much about. I've got a really, really, really good life.

Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.