Comedy is much harder, it's a lot more exacting. You can't just be real and you can't just use the same kind of techniques you use to fill up a regular scene.

Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

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.

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

I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me.