I never thought in terms of typing myself, because I wasn't that successful. After an actor has done a few pieces of work, his naïveté is the part of the craft he has to nurture most.

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.

I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don't.

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

I have never lied to you, I have always told you some version of the truth.