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

I feel very lucky because I don't think there's any part I can't play. There are parts that scare me more than others.

There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've had some successes and some failures. I suppose my life would be smoother if I wasn't almost totally enamored of the latter category.

I'm in the movie business; it's meant to be very cutthroat. But you won't find anybody that ever says I cheated them or manipulated them.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

A man needs a private life. With no ability to have a private life, one thing leads to another, and before you know it we have Bill and Monica. We need to get real about things. Humans are humans. Why should we expect more?

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.