It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.

Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

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

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.

Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.

The best movies are made from a point of view of an understanding of human nature and an understanding of history and an understanding of what motivates people, of what makes a good movie from an emotional place.

Los Angeles is where you have to be if you want to be an actor. You have no choice. You go there or New York. I flipped a coin about it. It came up New York, so I flipped again. When you're starting out to be an actor, who wants to go where it's cold and miserable and be poor there?