My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.

What I found was an emotional consistency with him. The words, the scenes, the situations - I wasn't mimicking what I thought Branch Rickey's emotional reality would have been.

There comes a point when you've exhausted your opportunities playing good guys. I've been around long enough, I think I'm entitled to explore a bit. But what I saw there was an opportunity to play a character different from what the audience's expectation was. A chance to take their crude experience of me - of my iconography, if you will - and turn it on its ear at an appropriate juncture in the film to be useful to the process of telling the story.

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

Irish as a person but I feel Jewish as an actor.

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.