It's not ideal to have three films coming out at once.

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

I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.

I think people in Italy live their lives better than we do. It's an older country, and they've learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it.

In the ’60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women’s rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn’t just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.

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

Bush, Sharon, Blair and Rice are names that history will damn.