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

I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.

Dissembling is a common tool of the anger junkie.

I have never felt brutalized as an actor. Many actors do, some times, but I've never had that experience. If I'm not happy with the balance, I just won't work with that person again.

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which is the best part an actor brings to his work.

I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.