Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development.

I'm not hard to get along with.

I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.

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

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

There are short parts that I as an actor am very right for. Or I just like the part. Or you need someone like me for the movie. By that I don't mean at the box office, I mean in the execution of the material.

I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home.