It's the post-literate generation that is most disturbing to a movie-maker. The explosions and the knifings. People like to go to what's hot and you can't get past a certain gross unless you involve children who go more than once.

My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this? What about that? Either you're safe or you're out. It's ten yards or it's not. It's in the hoop or out of the hoop. It's certain.

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.

Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.

This town needs an enema!

Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them.