A bad guy in a movie has a lot of latitude for acting. He can walk up the wall, crawl across the ceiling, go piss in the corner and everybody will say, "Fantastic!" But somebody's going to have to catch that sucker. Somebody's going to have to play the guy who gets him in the end. And that's a better part.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.