There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny - nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development.

I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did.

We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.