My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

What I hate is the loss of anonymity.

With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people's stories.

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.