When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.

I'm not hard to get along with.

I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life.

I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.

Everyone pretty much acknowledges that he's the man, and I still feel that underrates him.

The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.

Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.