Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

The camera photographs what's there.

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.

I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me.

I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.