That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people.

There are short parts that I as an actor am very right for. Or I just like the part. Or you need someone like me for the movie. By that I don't mean at the box office, I mean in the execution of the material.

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

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.

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

You're anachronistic when you know that your feelings aren't going to have any effect on anything.

I'm against cronyism, and I had to learn that early on. Like, I don't have an entourage, because I saw the negative effects of those things.