An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.

If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.

It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people - like all human beings - are born equal in dignity and rights.

The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.