All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

I'm like old shoes, I've never been hip.

The thing I always guard against when I'm talking to people I'm working with about a script is that there's a thing I don't like and it's called "talk story." It's when you're talking about the story; the characters are tasked with talking about the story instead of allowing the audience to experience the story.

Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.